Music at Rush Hour

Join Clothworkers Consort of Leeds to finish off your week and the term with a concert of a capella choral music. Our programme will chart a journey from Spain to Britain with a detour of sorts to Finland. The programme opens with music from the Spanish Renaissance, with vernacular madrigals by Francisco Ortega, Francisco Guerrero and Cristóbal de Morales. In Britain we engage with sacred works by John Sheppard, Thomas Tomkins and Orlando Gibbons, and to mark the 400th anniversary of his death, we offer one of Gibbon’s most loved work, ‘The silver swan’. From there we travel two joint paths, to Finland and Spain with Einojuhani Rautavaara’s settings of texts by Federíco García Lorca. We close with a return to Britain with the evocative Five Flower Songs by Benjamin Britten.