Voice & Verse
Saturday July 11, 7.30 pm
St James, Sussex Gardens
London W2 3UD
Experience an evening of radiant English choral masterpieces, celebrating the human voice’s enduring and fruitful musical connection with great poetry.
Join Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir for a sparkling programme featuring the majestic Blest Pair of Sirens, Hubert Parry’s fine setting of John Milton’s ode At a Solemn Musick; William Harris’s heartfelt interpretation of John Donne’s poem Bring Us, O Lord God; and Gerald Finzi’s anthem Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice, a poignant setting of two works by the 17th-century poet Richard Crashaw. Vaughan Williams’s evocative paean to the Bard in his Three Shakespeare Songs, as well as two gems from his Five Mystical Songs – Easter and Love Bade Me Welcome – will also feature, alongside Benjamin Britten’s scintillating three-part setting of WH Auden in his Hymn to St Cecilia.
From serene devotion to jubilant celebration, CML’s summer concert weaves poetry and sacred reflection through lush harmonies and soaring melodies. Perfect for lovers of choral tradition, it will delight anyone moved by the power of the human voice in perfect harmony with great poetry.
