Love Bade Me Welcome

Love Bade Me Welcome

Saturday 28th June 2025

7:00 pm

St Michael and All Angels, Bath Road, London W4 1TT

Still Life with Wild Strawberries (detail), 
Adriaen Coorte, 1705 Β© Wikimedia Commons
God is gone up
Gerald Finzi (1901–56); Edward Taylor (c. 1642–1729)
Sweet stay a while
John Dowland (c. 1563–1626); John Donne (c. 1571–1631)
Farewell false love
William Byrd (c. 1540–1623); Walter Raleigh (c. 1553–1618)
With sick and famished eyes
Henry Purcell (1659–95); George Herbert (1593–1633)
A hymn to God the Father
Pelham Humphrey (1647–74); John Donne (c. 1571–1631)
The aspiration
Henry Purcell (1659–95); John Norris (1657–1712)
My soul, there is a country
C. Hubert. H. Parry (1848–1918); Henry Vaughan (1621–95)
Love bade me welcome
Judith Weir (b.1954); George Herbert (1593–1633)
Bring us, o Lord God
William Harris (1883–1973); John Donne (c. 1571–1631)
Lo, the full, final sacrifice
Gerald Finzi (1901–56); Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–49)
The fountain
Edward Elgar (1857–1934); Henry Vaughan (1621–95)
Philomela
Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979); Philip Sidney (1554–86)
Five mystical songs
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958); George Herbert (1593–1633)
(i) Easter
(ii) I got me flowers
(iii) Love bade me welcome
(iv) The Call
(v) Antiphon

Richard Bannan Musical Director
Eoghan Desmond Bass-baritone
Alex Knight Organ
Bookings no longer allowed on this date.