William Walton Set me as a seal

Ola Gjelo Northern lights

Judith Weir Love bade me welcome

Eric Whitacre This marriage

arranged by Jim Clements My love is like a red, red rose

Celia McDowell Love’s Philosophy

Owain Park Shakespeare Love Songs

Gerald Finzi My spirit sang all day

Benjamin Britten Hymn to St Cecilia

Frank Bridge Music, when soft voices die

Stephan Paulus The road home (Let my love be heard)

Kate Rusby Underneath the stars

Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim One hand, one heart from West Side Story
arranged by Kirby Shaw

Jonathan Larson Seasons of love from Rent
arranged by Philip Lawson

Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim Somewhere from West Side Story
arranged by Robert Edgerton

The Fourth Choir
Ben Horden conductor

For its Pride Concert this year, The Fourth Choir is celebrating that endlessly fascinating subject, LOVE!

What is love? Well, come and hear what Kate Rusby and Michel LeGrand have to say on the subject. Shakespeare and Shelley also have some thoughts they want to share with you, as well as Leonard Bernstein and Robbie Burns, Cecilia McDowall and Judith Weir. The concert will also feature a performance of The Hymn to St Cecilia, an astonishing twelve-minute masterpiece by those queer geniuses, Benjamin Britten and W H Auden, which asks whether love should be chaste or sexual - St Cecilia or Aphrodite.

The Fourth Choir is thrilled to be performing at ​Stone Nest, scene of the Limelight, London’s most hedonistic nightclub in the 1980s. We can just feel the aura of Boy George, Bob Geldof, George Michael and the international glitterati who used to hang out there. And because we’re performing in the heart of the West End, we’ll be celebrating music theatre with wonderful choral arrangements of pieces from Rent and West Side Story.