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Leighton: Every Living Creature - Choral Music / Griffiths, Londinium
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Leighton: Every Living Creature - Choral Music / Griffiths, Londinium

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Composer
Kenneth Leighton
Artist
Londinium
Format
CD
Label
SOMM Recordings
Released
Jun 09, 2023
Catalog #
SOMMCD 0667
UPC
748871066724

About

SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce the label return of the chamber choir Londinium and director Andrew Griffiths with Every Living Creature, a recital of choral music by Kenneth Leighton on the 35th anniversary of his death featuring five premiere recordings. The album unearths a number of significant works by this important British composer, including the extraordinary, eight-movement Laudes Animantium, a 25-minute work for double choir, soloists and children’s chorus, as well as a superb setting of John Donne’s Nativitie and the charming Three Carols (1948). Also featured are the partsong London Town and three more sacred works: Lord, When the Sense of Thy Sweet Grace, An evening hymn and A Hymn to the Trinity.

Five of the pieces are heard on disc for the first time; the remaining four have been recorded only once before. Londinium is joined by soloists Rebecca Lea and Nina Bennet (sopranos), Ciara Hendrick (mezzo-soprano), Nick Pritchard (tenor) and, in the finale of Laudes Animantium, the choir of Finchley Children’s Music Group.

In his insightful booklet notes, Griffiths writes: “It is rare to find a choral singer who does not enjoy performing Leighton’s works. His music is rooted in rigorous part-writing and counterpoint, and alive with invigorating rhythm, motivic interplay and piquant dissonance, underlaid with a deeply lyrical instinct and an exquisite sensitivity to the meaning and colour of text”.

Tracklist 16 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Prelude 03:57
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Prelude
    Duration
    03:57
    Composer
    Kenneth Leighton
    Performer
    Nick Pritchard
    Ensemble
    Londinium
    Conductor
    Andrew Griffiths
  2. 2 No. 2. Scherzo: Calico Pie 02:03
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Scherzo: Calico Pie
    Duration
    02:03
    Composer
    Kenneth Leighton
    Performer
    Rebecca Lea
    Ensemble
    Londinium
    Conductor
    Andrew Griffiths
  3. 3 No. 3. The Nightingale 03:57
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. The Nightingale
    Duration
    03:57
    Composer
    Kenneth Leighton
    Performer
    Rebecca Lea, Nick Pritchard
    Ensemble
    Londinium
    Conductor
    Andrew Griffiths
  4. 4 No. 4. The Lamb 02:22
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. The Lamb
    Duration
    02:22
    Composer
    Kenneth Leighton
    Performer
    Arielle Leowinger, Madelaine Napier
    Ensemble
    Londinium
    Conductor
    Andrew Griffiths
  5. 5 No. 5. The Kraken 05:13
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. The Kraken
    Duration
    05:13
    Composer
    Kenneth Leighton
    Performer
    Rebecca Lea
    Ensemble
    Londinium
    Conductor
    Andrew Griffiths
  6. 6 No. 6. The Grey Squirrel 04:00
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. The Grey Squirrel
    Duration
    04:00
    Composer
    Kenneth Leighton
    Ensemble
    Londinium
    Conductor
    Andrew Griffiths
  7. 7 No. 7. The Tyger 03:08
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7. The Tyger
    Duration
    03:08
    Composer
    Kenneth Leighton
    Ensemble
    Londinium
    Conductor
    Andrew Griffiths
  8. 8 No. 8. Every Living Creature 07:55
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 8. Every Living Creature
    Duration
    07:55
    Composer
    Kenneth Leighton
    Performer
    Nina Bennett, Ciara Hendrick, Nick Pritchard
    Ensemble
    Finchley Children's Music Group, Londinium
    Conductor
    Andrew Griffiths
  9. 9 An Evening Hymn 09:12
    Track
    9
    Title
    An Evening Hymn
    Duration
    09:12
    Composer
    Kenneth Leighton
    Performer
    Rebecca Lea
    Ensemble
    Londinium
    Conductor
    Andrew Griffiths
  10. 10 London Town 06:28
    Track
    10
    Title
    London Town
    Duration
    06:28
    Composer
    Kenneth Leighton
    Performer
    Rebecca Lea, Nick Pritchard
    Ensemble
    Londinium
    Conductor
    Andrew Griffiths
  11. 11 Lord, When the Sense of Thy Sweet Grace 05:44
    Track
    11
    Title
    Lord, When the Sense of Thy Sweet Grace
    Duration
    05:44
    Composer
    Kenneth Leighton
    Performer
    Rebecca Lea
    Ensemble
    Londinium
    Conductor
    Andrew Griffiths
  12. 12 No. 1. Lully, lulla, thou tiny little child 03:32
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 1. Lully, lulla, thou tiny little child
    Duration
    03:32
    Composer
    Kenneth Leighton
    Performer
    Helena Whitfield
    Ensemble
    Londinium
    Conductor
    Andrew Griffiths
  13. 13 No. 2. The seven joys of Mary 05:25
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 2. The seven joys of Mary
    Duration
    05:25
    Composer
    Kenneth Leighton
    Performer
    Fiona Clark, Clare Loosely, Isobel McIntosh, Ben Byram-Wingfield
    Ensemble
    Londinium
    Conductor
    Andrew Griffiths
  14. 14 No. 3. Sleep, Holy Babe 04:05
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 3. Sleep, Holy Babe
    Duration
    04:05
    Composer
    Kenneth Leighton
    Ensemble
    Londinium
    Conductor
    Andrew Griffiths
  15. 15 Nativitie 05:46
    Track
    15
    Title
    Nativitie
    Duration
    05:46
    Composer
    Kenneth Leighton
    Performer
    Rebecca Lea
    Ensemble
    Londinium
    Conductor
    Andrew Griffiths
  16. 16 A Hymn to the Trinity 03:35
    Track
    16
    Title
    A Hymn to the Trinity
    Duration
    03:35
    Composer
    Kenneth Leighton
    Ensemble
    Londinium
    Conductor
    Andrew Griffiths