ECS Summer Concert – Saturday 12th July 2025

Concert starts at 7:30pm
St John the Baptist Church,
Eltham,
Eltham High Street,
SE9 1DH

Conducted by Max Barley
Organ: Andrew Lenon

Orlando Gibbons
Marking the 400th centenary of his death, ECS will perform a selection of Gibbons’ work, including…

• This is the Record of John
• See, see the Word is Incarnate
• Almighty and Everlasting God
• Nunc Dimittis from the Short Service in Ab
• Ah Dear Heart
• The Silver Swan

John Rutter:
The Sprig of Thyme folk – A Cycle of Folk-Song Settings

The Sprig of Thyme offers a suite of eleven folk-song settings of traditional songs of the British Isles, drawing together long-standing favourites as ‘Willow Song’ and ‘The Miller of Dee’ with lesser known gems as ‘O Can Ye Sew Cushions’ and ‘The Sprig of Thyme. The full programme will include:

• The Bold Grenadier
• The Keel Row
• The Willow Tree
• The Sprig of Thyme
• Down by the Sally Gardens
• The Cuckoo
• I Know Where I’m Going
• Willow Song
• O Can Ye Sew Cushions?
• The Miller of Dee
• Afton Water

St John the Baptist Church,
Eltham,
Eltham High Street,
SE9 1DH