Details

St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate Church
Bishopsgate
City of London
London
EC2M 3TL
England

Sunday 29th October 2017
7:00 PM

Programme

Matthew Harris – Shakespeare Songs
Philip Sawyers – Three Shakespeare Songs
John Rutter – It was a lover and his lass
Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story: 'One hand, one heart'
John Tavener – Song for Athene
Henry Purcell – If Music be the Food of Love, Z.379
Huub de Lange – A Tale Told by an Idiot
Charles Wood – Full Fathom Five
Edward German – Who Is Sylvia
Bob Chilcott – The Isle is full of noises
Thomas Morley – It was a lover and his lass (As you like it: Act V Scene 3)
George Shearing – When daisies pied
William Walton – Touch her soft lips and part
John Bennet – Weep, O Mine Eyes
Thomas Vautor – Sweet Suffolk Owl
Thomas Morley – Sing We and Chaunt It
John Bennet – All Creatures Now are Merry-minded

Performers

Kathryn Ridgeway – Conductor

Maidstone Singers

Other concerts in this Series ▼

Programme Note

The Brandenburg Choral Festival of London welcomes back The Maidstone Singers for this concert of music inspired by The Bard interspersed with readings and performances give by Angela Clarke and David Vale. The music dates from the 1600s with Purcell’s If Music be the Food of Love to the present day and the world premiere of three songs by Philip Sawyers, commissioned by the choir. The concert will also include settings of Shakespeare by Matthew Harris, John Rutter and John Tavener, and the beautiful song “One Hand, One Heart” from West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s twentieth-century retelling of Romeo and Juliet. Join us for this wonderful evening of remarkable words and music in the lovely surroundings of St Botolph’s.

For more information please click here.