LFCCM 2016:
Saturday 7 May – Sunday 15 May 2016
Review LFCCM 2016
LFCCM 2016 included 34 events between Saturday 7 May and Sunday 15 May 2016.
Saturday 7 May
5:00pm, Saturday 7 MayChoral EvensongWestminster AbbeyMusic by Felix Mendelssohn, Matthew Martin, and Michael Tippett
6:45pm, Saturday 7 MayPre-concert TalkSt Pancras Parish ChurchDr Geoffrey Webber, Director of the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, talks with Christopher Batchelor and composers John Kenny and Barnaby Brown ahead of tonight’s opening concert
7:30pm, Saturday 7 May“Music for the Lost Palace of Westminster”: The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, CambridgeSt Pancras Parish ChurchNew music for ancient instruments, with works by Nicholas Ludford, Thomas Preston, John Sheppard, James MacMillan, John Kenny, Barnaby Brown, Stephen Bick and Francis Grier
Sunday 8 May
10:00am, Sunday 8 MayChoral EucharistSt Pancras Parish ChurchMusic by Łukasz Urbaniak, Helen Roe, and Cecilia McDowall
11:00am, Sunday 8 MayChoral EucharistSt Marylebone Parish ChurchMusic by Gabriel Jackson, Matthew Martin, Simon Lindley, and Jacques van Oortmerssen
11:00am, Sunday 8 MayChoral MattinsThe Chapels Royal, HM St James’ PalaceMusic by Ned Rorem, Philip Radcliffe, Philip Moore, and James MacMillan
3:30pm, Sunday 8 MayChoral EvensongThe Chapels Royal, HM Hampton Court PalaceMusic by Rupert Jeffcoat and Judith Weir
6:00pm, Sunday 8 MayChoral EvensongSt Pancras Parish ChurchMusic by Mark Bellis, Gail Randall, Gregory Rose, Brian Inglis, and Nicholas O’Neill
Monday 9 May
9:00pm, Monday 9 MayComplineSt Pancras Parish ChurchMusic by Simon Brown, David Bednall, Toby Young, and David Buckley
Tuesday 10 May
1:15pm, Tuesday 10 MayOrgan RecitalLincoln’s Inn ChapelBen Morriss performs a diverse programme of new works, including a world premiere by William Cole for the Orgelbüchlein Project
Wednesday 11 May
1:10pm, Wednesday 11 MayChoral EucharistKing’s College LondonMusic by Rhian Samuel and Olivier Messiaen
1:15pm, Wednesday 11 MayOrgan RecitalThe Temple ChurchColin Walsh performs a diverse programme of contemporary organ works
3:30pm, Wednesday 11 MayChoral EvensongSt Pancras Parish ChurchMusic by Francis Grier, Sebastian Forbes, Cecilia McDowall, Peter Foggitt, and Daniel Knaggs
Thursday 12 May
1:15pm, Thursday 12 MayChoral EucharistSt Pancras Parish ChurchMusic by Geoffrey Lester, Frank La Rocca, Gabriel Jackson, and Jonathan Ostlund
Friday 13 May
5:30pm, Friday 13 MayPre-concert TalkSt Pancras Parish ChurchCharles Peebles gives a short introduction to the music in this afternoon’s “Rush Hour” recital
5:45pm, Friday 13 MayChamber Choir of University College, LondonSt Pancras Parish ChurchMusic by Peter Maxwell Davies, John Tavener, and Hugh Wood
6:00pm, Friday 13 May“Martyrdom and Eternity”: Promenade ConcertThe National GalleryMusic by Phillip Cooke, Gabriel Jackson, Jonathan Dove, Benjamin Britten, Antony Pitts, Julian Anderson, and Francis Pott
Saturday 14 May
10:00am, Saturday 14 MayHymnody WorkshopSt Pancras Parish ChurchChristopher Batchelor and The Revd Gordon Giles lead this workshop on new hymns for the church, including submissions from this year’s Call for Scores, with the choir of St Pancras Church
7:00pm, Saturday 14 MayPre-concert TalkSt Pancras Parish ChurchAn introduction to the music in tonight’s Gala Concert
7:30pm, Saturday 14 MayGala ConcertSt Pancras Parish ChurchMousai performs music by James MacMillan, Judith Bingham, Matthew Martin, Philip Moore, Neil Cox and Francis Pott
Sunday 15 May
10:00am, Sunday 15 MayChoral EucharistSt Pancras Parish ChurchMusic by Kathryn Rose, Richard Pantcheff, David Truslove, and Julian Hodgson
11:00am, Sunday 15 MayChoral EucharistChrist Church, ChelseaMusic by James Walton, Louisa Sullivan, Gareth Wilson, and Robert Busiakiewicz
11:00am, Sunday 15 MayParish Mass with SermonSt Magnus the MartyrMusic by Peter Foggitt and William Petter
11:00am, Sunday 15 MayChoral EucharistHoly Trinity, Sloane SquareMusic by Bob Chilcott, Philip Stopford, Herbert Howells, Malcolm Archer, and Peter Foggitt
11:00am, Sunday 15 MayChoral EucharistThe King’s Chapel of the SavoyMusic by Gabriel Jackson, Ronald Corp, and Thomas Hewitt Jones
5:00pm, Sunday 15 MayChoral EvensongSt John the Baptist, Holland RoadMusic by Richard Shephard, Geoffrey Burgon, and Howard Goodall
5:30pm, Sunday 15 MayChoral EvensongAll Saints Church, BlackheathMusic by William Gormley and Jonathan Rathbone
6:00pm, Sunday 15 MayChoral EvensongSt Pancras Parish ChurchMusic by William Petter, Jonathan Dove, Gareth Wilson, and Oliver Morrell
As composer and founder-patron of The London Festival of Contemporary Church Music, I have keenly watched it grow from its beginnings more than a decade ago. The Festival quickly became an established and much valued event in London’s musical calendar, bringing proper attention to the vital place of new music in the church’s repertoire. Indeed, it would now be hard to envisage the month of May without the enjoyment of this exciting enterprise.
