Choral Music at Rush Hour
- Date: Friday 9 May 2025, 17:30 –
- Location: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Music
- Cost: Free
Join Clothworkers Consort of Leeds to finish off your week and the term with a concert of a capella choral music.
Join Clothworkers Consort of Leeds to finish off your week and the term with a concert of a capella choral music. Our programme will chart a journey from Spain to Britain with a detour of sorts to Finland. The programme opens with music from the Spanish Renaissance, with vernacular madrigals by Francisco Ortega, Francisco Guerrero and Cristóbal de Morales. In Britain we engage with sacred works by John Sheppard, Thomas Tomkins and Orlando Gibbons, and to mark the 400th anniversary of his death, we offer one of Gibbon’s most loved work, ‘The silver swan’. From there we travel two joint paths, to Finland and Spain with Einojuhani Rautavaara’s settings of texts by Federíco García Lorca. We close with a return to Britain with the evocative Five Flower Songs by Benjamin Britten.
Programme
Francisco Ortega (fl b. 1569) Pues que me tienes, Miguel
Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599) Huyd, Huyd
Cristóbal de Morales (c. 1500-1552) Ditimi o si o no
John Sheppard (c. 1515-1558) I give you a new commandment
Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656) I heard a voice from heaven
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) Come holy ghost
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) The silver swan
Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016) – “Suite” de Lorca
Canción de jinete
El Grito
La luna asoma
Malagueňa
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) – Five Flower Songs
To Daffodils
The Succession of the Sweet Months of May
Marsh Flowers
The Evening Primrose
Ballad of Green Broom
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