BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra

Presented by Penny Gore.
This concert presents a selection of choral works by the British composer Bernard Hughes alongside a selection of favourite composers he has chosen to complement his music. Hughes’s music ranges from the wordless ecstasy of Revelation Window to the exciting world premiere of new commission A Ternary of Littles. A sequence of sacred pieces in the second half includes works by Dobrinka Tabakova and Eleanor Alberga, while the secular first half includes a Burns setting by Cecilia McDowall and the exquisite Pavane Fantasia by long-time BBC Singers collaborator Bo Holten.
It's followed by American conductor Fawzi Haimor and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the German trumpeter Simon Höfele both making their BBC Symphony Orchestra debuts. There’s Syrian-American composer’s Kareem Roustom’s recent propulsive, colourful piece 'Ramal' and a work by Russian/Soviet composer Sergei Vasilenko - his Concerto Poem for Trumpet & Orchestra, written in the late 1940s, which demonstrates the trumpet’s lyrical voice.

2.00pm
Bernard Hughes: Revelation Window
Bo Holten: Pavan I (Pavane-Fantasia)
Bernard Hughes: I Sing of Love
Cecilia McDowall: A red, red rose
Bernard Hughes: The winter it is past
Bernard Hughes: Two Songs of Spring
Bernard Hughes: A Ternary of Littles - WORLD PREMIERE
Dobrinka Tabakova: Alma Redemptoris Mater
Bernard Hughes: Psalm 56
Bernard Hughes: Jubilate Domino
Eleanor Alberga: My Heart Danceth
Bernard Hughes: Precious Things
BBC Singers
Eamonn Dougan, conductor

3.10pm
Kareem Roustom: Ramal
Sergei Vasilenko: Concerto Poem for Trumpet and Orchestra, Op.113*
Simon Höfele, trumpet* (Radio 3 New Generation Artist)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Fawzi Haimor, conductor

3.45pm
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor