Bangkok Music Society presents "All Beauteous Things", a choral concert featuring music inspired by the natural world at Christ Church, Convent Road, on Sunday at 6pm.
Much orchestral music has been written depicting the natural world; instruments often imitate birdsong, wind, rain or thunder. The relatively few similarly themed choral works are mostly settings of poems describing humanity's fear but, more often, our joy and love of nature.
Dame Judith Weir's I love All Beauteous Things is one such work. She wrote this choral piece to celebrate the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II in 2016 at London's St Paul's Cathedral, for which she chose a poem by Robert Bridges, a former royal Poet Laureate. Since then, this has been a popular song for many British choirs.
