{"product_id":"londinium-every-living-creature-choral-music-cd-album","title":"Londinium Every Living Creature - Choral Music - CD Album","description":"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\". Londinium and Andrew Griffiths' debut SOMM release was The Gluepot Connection, a compendium portrait of British musical life in the middle of the last century (SOMMCD 180), a MusicWeb International Recording of the Year, hailed as \"a brilliant concept\" and \"flawlessly performed\". It received a five-star review from Choir \u0026amp; Organ, and four stars from BBC Music Magazine and The Daily Telegraph, with Gramophone hailing it's \"impressive accomplishment\" and declaring it \"well worth seeking out\".\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabel: SOMM RECORDINGS\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Classical\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Londinium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53821256827173,"sku":"Z6IF3A-YE2K-59","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/8142\/3397\/files\/londinium-every-living-creature-choral-music-cd-album_CG3fo.jpg?v=1789403861","url":"https:\/\/mediamall.com\/products\/londinium-every-living-creature-choral-music-cd-album","provider":"mediamall","version":"1.0","type":"link"}