The first of a series of eight lunchtime concerts to mark the 800th anniversary of the foundation of the mayoralty of the City of London in 1189. Songs and lyrics from the court of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, by Marie de France and Peter of Blois, and by the troubadour Bernart de Ventadom.
NEW LONDON CONSORT directed by philip PICKETT (Given on 10 July in the Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, in association with Unilever) as part of the City of London Festival