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

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Label
SOMM Recordings
Release Date
June 9, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Kenneth Leighton
    • PERFORMER
      Londinium
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 09, 2023
    • UPC
      748871066724
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SOMMCD 0667
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Prelude

      Composer: Kenneth Leighton

      Ensemble: Londinium

      Performer: Nick Pritchard

      Conductor: Andrew Griffiths

    2. No. 2. Scherzo: Calico Pie

      Composer: Kenneth Leighton

      Ensemble: Londinium

      Performer: Rebecca Lea

      Conductor: Andrew Griffiths

    3. No. 3. The Nightingale

      Composer: Kenneth Leighton

      Ensemble: Londinium

      Performer: Rebecca Lea, Nick Pritchard

      Conductor: Andrew Griffiths

    4. No. 4. The Lamb

      Composer: Kenneth Leighton

      Ensemble: Londinium

      Performer: Arielle Leowinger, Madelaine Napier

      Conductor: Andrew Griffiths

    5. No. 5. The Kraken

      Composer: Kenneth Leighton

      Ensemble: Londinium

      Performer: Rebecca Lea

      Conductor: Andrew Griffiths

    6. No. 6. The Grey Squirrel

      Composer: Kenneth Leighton

      Ensemble: Londinium

      Conductor: Andrew Griffiths

    7. No. 7. The Tyger

      Composer: Kenneth Leighton

      Ensemble: Londinium

      Conductor: Andrew Griffiths

    8. No. 8. Every Living Creature

      Composer: Kenneth Leighton

      Ensemble: Finchley Children's Music Group, Londinium

      Performer: Nina Bennett, Ciara Hendrick, Nick Pritchard

      Conductor: Andrew Griffiths

    9. An Evening Hymn

      Composer: Kenneth Leighton

      Ensemble: Londinium

      Performer: Rebecca Lea

      Conductor: Andrew Griffiths

    10. London Town

      Composer: Kenneth Leighton

      Ensemble: Londinium

      Performer: Rebecca Lea, Nick Pritchard

      Conductor: Andrew Griffiths

    11. Lord, When the Sense of Thy Sweet Grace

      Composer: Kenneth Leighton

      Ensemble: Londinium

      Performer: Rebecca Lea

      Conductor: Andrew Griffiths

    12. No. 1. Lully, lulla, thou tiny little child

      Composer: Kenneth Leighton

      Ensemble: Londinium

      Performer: Helena Whitfield

      Conductor: Andrew Griffiths

    13. No. 2. The seven joys of Mary

      Composer: Kenneth Leighton

      Ensemble: Londinium

      Performer: Fiona Clark, Clare Loosely, Isobel McIntosh, Ben Byram-Wingfield

      Conductor: Andrew Griffiths

    14. No. 3. Sleep, Holy Babe

      Composer: Kenneth Leighton

      Ensemble: Londinium

      Conductor: Andrew Griffiths

    15. Nativitie

      Composer: Kenneth Leighton

      Ensemble: Londinium

      Performer: Rebecca Lea

      Conductor: Andrew Griffiths

    16. A Hymn to the Trinity

      Composer: Kenneth Leighton

      Ensemble: Londinium

      Conductor: Andrew Griffiths


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”.