In Love's Garden: choral settings of the Song of Songs

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, London
Holborn Viaduct, EC1A 2DQ
United Kingdom
http://stsepulchres.org/music/concerts/

Londinium (chamber choir)
Andrew Griffiths (conductor)

The Old Testament Song of Songs contains some of the most beautiful love poetry ever written, and its heady eroticism has inspired superb music from composers across five centuries. Londinium’s programme centres on the rarely-performed, luscious twelve-voiced 'Le Cantique des Cantiques' by Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, which is heard alongside sumptuous Renaissance works by Clemens non Papa, Tomás Luis de Victoria and Hieronymus Praetorius, and equally seductive works by two modern masters, Howard Skempton and Francis Grier.

Francis Grier : Dilectus meus mihi
Howard Skempton : Rise up my love