Fire and Water

7:00pm, Thu, 27 Mar 2025

Type of event:	Performance
Start time:	7:00pm
Venue:	St Mary-at-Hill Eastcheap, London EC3R 8EB
Description:	For our spring concert, Chandos Chamber Choir is proud to present a programme of song themed around the elements of fire and water. Our programme features predominantly contemporary music, including a number of pieces by Finnish composer Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, with works by Katerina Gimon, Dominick DiOrio and Ben Parry. Longer established favourites by Edward Bairstow, Thomas Weelkes and Thomas Morley are also part of our repertoire. One of our key works for this evening is Jaakko Mäntyjärvi’s Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae which recounts the tragedy of the shipwreck of the car ferry Estonia in 1994, where 910 people lost their lives. Mäntyjärvi’s haunting piece combines elements of plainchant and folksong, with the Latin text bringing together the contemporary announcement of the shipwreck on the Latin-language Nuntii Latini news programme broadcast by the Finnish Broadcasting Company with excepts from the Requiem mass and Latin texts of Psalm 107 They that go down to the sea in ships. From our contemporary composers, we will also perform two other pieces by Mäntyjärvi, as well as Katerina Gimon’s Fire and Water, Day of Fire and Sun by Dominick DiOrio and Flame by Ben Parry. We hope you will join us at St Mary-At-Hill on 27 March for this exciting programme.