BBC Performing Groups Round Up of the Year

Elizabeth Alker presents a round-up of the best of the BBC Performing Groups this year. The afternoon begins with the BBC Singers live from London's historic Temple Church with a festive programme of contemporary Christmas carols, conducted by Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin and introduced by Ian Skelly. The concert includes the world premiere of the Lebanese-French composer Naji Hakim’s spectacular setting of Veni, veni, Emmanuel. Then we head north with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu's Requiem, the work that launched his international career in 1957, and Rachmaninov's Third Symphony which was written in exile in Lucerne in the mid-thirties.

2pm

Carl Rutti: My Dancing Day
Michael Higgins: The Angel Gabriel
Christopher Robinson: Rejoice and be merry
Naji Hakim: Veni, veni Emmanuel
Roderick Williams: Queen Elizabeth's Winchester Carol
Malcolm Archer: A little child there is yborn
Fredrik Sixten: Mary's Lullaby
James MacMillan: Nova! Nova! Ave fit ex Eva
Francis Pott: Improvisation on Adeste, Fideles
Richard Lloyd: Love came down at Christmas
Roxanna Panufnik: Jesus Christ is Born (Angels Sing)
James Burton: Balulalow
Matthew Martin: Novo profusi gaudio
Trad arr Cleobury: Quittez, pasteurs
Betty Roe: The Holly and the Ivy
Judith Weir: Illuminare, Jerusalem
Trad arr. Nicholson: The Lord of the Dance

BBC Singers
Ashley Grote, organ
Sofi Jeannin, conductor

c.3.10pm

Takemitsu : Requiem for Strings
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles, conductor

Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3 in A minor Opus 44
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson, conductor