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21st-Century Choral Classics: Path of Miracles

Live from Milton Court, Sofi Jeannin and the BBC Singers perform Joby Talbot's Path of Miracles alongside SEEN, Joanna Marsh's BBC commission for choir and live electronics.

Nearly four years in the making, Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles is fast becoming a 21st-century choral classic. Inspired by the indelible impression left on the composer by the sights of the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain, the work is a choral dramatization of the famous pilgrimage route, setting poetry and religious texts in seven languages. Talbot’s tightly bound voices journey through physical hardship, mental endurance and spiritual resolve, finally arriving at a point of jubilance as the pilgrims glimpse the end of their path.

The BBC Singers and Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin give the world premiere of a collaboration between composer Joanna Marsh, music producer, engineer and song-writer Glen Scott and lyricist Fiona Lindsay. Scored for choir with live electronic manipulation, SEEN reveals the lost female voices within classical drama and the reinterpretation through time of the stores of these women.

Live from Milton Court, presented by Martin Handley.

19.30
Joanna Marsh: SEEN (BBC Commission, world premiere)

c19.55
Interval
Dobrinka Tabakova: Suite in old style
Maxim Rysanov (viola), Vaiva Eidukaityte-Storastiene (harpsichord), Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra

c20.15
Joby Talbot: Path of Miracles

BBC Singers
Glenn Scott - electronic production
Sofi Jeannin - conductor

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Fri 20 May 2022 19:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Joanna Marsh

    SEEN

    Performer: Glen Scott. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Suite in Old Style 'The Court jester Amareu'

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Vaiva Eidukaitytė-Storastienė. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras.
    • ECM New Series.

  • Joby Talbot

    Path of Miracles

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne Opus 32 No.2

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin Nocturnes.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op.60

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: Late Masterpieces, Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in A flat major Op.34 no.1

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin - The Complete Waltzes.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Josef Rheinberger

    Rheinberger: Cantilena from Sonata No.11 in D minor, Op.148

    Music Arranger: David Cullen. Conductor: James Judd. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Romantic Cello.
    • UMG Recordings, Inc..
    • 36.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Concertino in G major for cor anglais

    Performer: Diego Dini Ciacci. Orchestra: Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto.
    • CPO.

Broadcast

  • Fri 20 May 2022 19:30
    BBC Radio 3

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