Hear My Heart Sing - A Feast of British Choral Music (Free entry)

The acclaimed British chamber choir Londinium making its first visit to Belgium presents a feast of outstanding music by British composers from the seventeenth century to the present day. The programme includes masterpieces by Elgar Stanford and Vaughan Williams madrigals and motets by the Renaissance composers Byrd Gibbons and Weelkes and superb contemporary works by Kerensa Briggs Bernard Hughes and Cecilia McDowall. The choir will also perform music by the English Renaissance composer Peter Philips who made his career in Antwerp and by the Flemish master Pierre de la Rue resident at Margaret of Austria's court at Mechelen.

Programme

Orlando Gibbons: Hosanna to the Son of David

John Ireland: The Hills

Kerensa Briggs: I will lift up mine eyes

William Byrd: This sweet and merry month of May

Thomas Weelkes: As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending

Howard Skempton: He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Pierre de la Rue: Lief, begheeft mij niet

Edward Elgar:O Wild West Wind

Cecilia McDowall: Here hum the bees

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Valiant-for-Truth

Peter Philips: Ecce vicit leo

Charles Villiers Stanford: Beati quorum via

William Harris: Faire is the heaven

Bernard Hughes: Hear My Heart Sing

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• Next month, 5th July, 08:00 pm, Hear My Heart Sing - A Feast of British Choral Music (Free entry) in Mechelen