London to Edinburgh: A Celebration of British Choral Music
Londinium tours to Scotland for the first time to celebrate the launch of the choir’s new CD of choral music by Kenneth Leighton, with a date at Stockbridge Parish Church on 11th June!
About London to Edinburgh: A Celebration of British Choral Music
London chamber choir Londinium tours to Scotland for the first time in June 2023, celebrating the launch of the choir’s new CD of choral music by Kenneth Leighton (1929-88) with a concert of British choral music in Edinburgh, the city where Leighton spent much of his career as a composer. The concert opens with Kenneth Leighton’s rousing ‘London Town’ (1968) and closes with his joyous ‘Hymn to the Trinity’, written in 1973 when Leighton was Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh.
Within a wide-ranging programme of music by British composers from the Renaissance to the contemporary, the concert features work by Scottish composer James MacMillan, Leighton’s student in Edinburgh in the late 1970s, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, a composer greatly admired by Leighton. Londinium performs MacMillan’s ‘The Gallant Weaver’, with a text by Robert Burns, and ‘Who shall Separate Us?’, written by MacMillan for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, as well as Vaughan Williams’ setting of the Scottish folk-song ‘Ca’ the Yowes’.
Demonstrating the choir’s versatility, the concert also includes contrasting motets by late Renaissance composers William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes in their 400th anniversary year.
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