Londinium is joined by acclaimed collaborative cellist Clare O'Connell for an evening of luminous and meditative music exploring themes of conflict, loss, resilience, and hope. Our programme is anchored by two masterpieces for cello and choir: John Tavener's haunting Syvati, in which the cello represents the Ikon of Christ, and Richard Rodney Bennett's warm-hearted A Farewell to Arms, in which it embodies a war-weary soldier. Woven around them is a sequence of classic motets by Tallis, Dering and Schütz, heartfelt works by Joubert and Mauersberger, and radiant recent music by Gabriel Jackson, Howard Skempton, and Lucy Walker.
Tickets include a complimentary programme, and wine will be served.
The Music
Lucy Walker: There will come soft rains
Richard Dering: Factum est silentium
John Joubert: Lines from "The Youth of Man"
Barbara Strozzi, arr. O'Connell: Che si può fare (with solo cello)
Fernando de las Infantas: Congregati sunt inimici nostri
Rudolf Mauersberger: Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst
John Tavener: Syvati (with solo cello)
- interval -
Gabriel Jackson: In memoriam
Howard Skempton: After Rain (with solo cello)
Thomas Tallis: O nata lux
John Joubert: Let There Be Light
Heinrich Schütz: Verleih uns Frieden
Richard Rodney Bennett: A Farewell to Arms (with solo cello)
Lucy Walker: I saw eternity