Shadowy Dark, Dawning to Light
30th Anniversary Concert
Thursday 7 November 2024, 19:30 - 21:30
St Botolph's Church [ map ]
Bishopsgate
London EC2M 3TL
tickets £18.00, reduced price tickets £14.00
Orlando Chamber Choir
Lucy Goddard, director
Orlando Chamber Choir celebrates its 30th anniversary in all shades of light! The programme starts by candle-glow with James Weeks' Orlando Tenebrae, written for the choir in 2011. In the course of this poignant composition the flames are extinguished one by one and a restless night follows with doubts and desires in its darkness - but then dawn breaks and waves of light warm up the land. Di Lasso, Gesualdo, Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli and Monteverdi colour the choral sound in many hues of happiness. Their harmonies vibrate above the horizon until we gaze upward and end the musical day (and our anniversary concert) in the divine light of heaven.
