World War One

29 Jun 2014, St Paul's Knightsbridge, London

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World War One

19:30 Sun 29 Jun 2014 St Paul's Knightsbridge

91热爆 Singers perform a concert of choral, folk and part songs written between 1914-1918.

Programme

- - Henry Walford Davies
  - A Short Requiem
- - Gustav Holst
  - 6 Choral Folk Songs, Op 36b(selection)
  - Nunc dimittis
- - Henry Walford Davies
  - Solemn Melody
- - Edward Elgar
  - Five Unaccompanied Part Songs
- - Harold Edwin Darke
  - As the leaves fall
- - William Denis Browne
  - Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G major
- - Hubert Parry
  - Songs of Farewell

Performers

91热爆 Singers
Andrew Griffiths
conductor
conductor
Stephen Farr
organist
organist

Composers

Concert Information

As part of the 91热爆鈥檚 WWI centenary season, Andrew Griffiths conducts the 91热爆 Singers and organist Stephen Farr in this concert of choral, folk and part songs written between 1914-1918.

Part songs by Elgar and Holst can be heard alongside Harold Darke鈥檚 lament for the fallen, As the Leaves Fall, set to a text by the little-known soldier Joseph Courtenay and Walford Davies鈥� A Short Requiem written just before he was made the first Director of Music with the then newly created RAF in 1918. Parry鈥檚 Songs of Farewell concludes the concert with songs written in the final two years of the conflict.

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Be in the Audience 91热爆 Singers 2013-14 Season

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