{"product_id":"leighton-londinium-every-living-creature-choral-music_aec-somm667-2","title":"Leighton\/ Londinium - Every Living Creature - Choral Music","description":"\u003cp\u003eSOMM 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\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somm Recordings","offers":[{"title":"New \/ CD \/ Every Living Creature - Choral Music Somm Recordings","offer_id":47259168670004,"sku":"SOMM667.2","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0790\/7436\/1652\/files\/4202512-3143619.jpg?v=1770654132","url":"https:\/\/www.fye.com\/products\/leighton-londinium-every-living-creature-choral-music_aec-somm667-2","provider":"FYE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}