Every Living Creature

Londinium’s album of choral music by Kenneth Leighton, featuring five premiere recordings, including the magnificent unpublished cantata Laudes Animantium, was released by SOMM Recordings in May 2023. It is a Gramophone Critics’ Choice for 2023 and a MusicWeb International Recording of the Year.

“Gloriously assured and superbly committed performances… afforded me enormous pleasure” (Gramophone)
★★★★★ "An unmissable recording for anyone interested in this important but all-too-little performed composer.” (Choir & Organ)
★★★★ ”The choral music of Kenneth Leighton (1929-88) deserves to be enjoyed well beyond its traditional ecclesiastical confines... this is a highly recommendable way to get to know it.” (BBC Music Magazine)
”Through their superb, committed and compelling performances on ‘Every Living Creature’, Andrew Griffiths and Londinium confirm Leighton as one of the finest British choral composers of the 20th century." (Opera Today)
"Laudes Animantium’… is absolutely wonderful… both beautiful and moving… the work receives a performance which is completely convincing and compelling... All in all another highly impressive disc" (MusicWeb International - first review)
"With such superb performances and a perfectly produced recording, this is an album to treasure." (MusicWeb International - second review)
"In order to perform Leighton’s music you have to be top-class… superb recording.” (British Music Society)

Future Concerts

Holy Sepulchre, Holborn
Friday 10 October at 7.30pm
St John’s Waterloo
Christmas concert:
Friday 19 December at 7.30pm

Latest Concert Reviews

High praise from two reviewers in the Edinburgh Music Review for ‘London to Edinburgh’. (June 2023)
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★★★★ Guardian, Telegraph, Times & Bachtrack for the London Sinfonietta’s ‘Sir Harrison Birtwistle: A Tribute’ at QEH, including praise for Londinium as chorus in The Fields of Sorrow. (March 2023)
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