Islington Proms: London

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Friday 27 September 2024, 7:30 pm

St James’s Church, Islington

“Welcome Joy” album launch concert

Launch concert for our new album “Welcome Joy” on Chandos Records, featuring music for upper voices and harp celebrating Women’s Voices both vocally and compositionally!

Imogen Holst (1907-1984)

Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow

Gemma McGregor (b. 1965)

Love was his meaning

Hilary Campbell (b. 1983)

Our endless day

Elizabeth Poston (1905-1987)

An English Day-Book

Judith Weir (b. 1954)

We sekyn here rest

Olivia Sparkhall (b. 1976)

Lux aeterna

Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

Two Eastern Pictures

Shruthi Rajasekar (b. 1996)

Ushās (Goddess of Dawn) *

Shruthi Rajasekar (b. 1996)

Priestess *

Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda: third group

 

* = world premiere: new commission specially for “Welcome Joy”

“Welcome Joy”
A CELEBRATION OF WOMEN’S VOICES

Our second album on Chandos Records, spotlighting women’s voices in collaboration with harpist Louise Thomson.

Release date: 27 September 2024

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