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A Garland for the Queen

As part of the Aldeburgh Festival, the BBC Singers and Principal Guest Conductor Owain Park perform a concert of choral music focusing on the Queen's platinum jubilee.

The BBC Singers perform a collection of short choral pieces by English composers created to celebrate HM the Queen's coronation in 1953. They also sing Britten’s dramatic Sacred and Profane, an anthem by the choir’s former Composer in Association, Judith Weir, and world premieres by Hilary Campbell and Britten Pears Young Artist Omri Kochavi. Kochavi sets texts by Iraq-born Israeli poet Amira Hess, and is inspired by the women in both ancient and modern Jewish-Babylonian culture he describes as the "Ghostbustresses" - warding off evil spirits through poetry and art.

Live from Snape Maltings. Presented by Martin Handley.

Bliss, Bax, Tippett, Vaughan Williams, Berkeley, Ireland, Howells, Finzi, Rawsthorne, Rubbra: A Garland for the Queen

19:50 - Interval
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks

20:10
Omri Kochavi: Kishtatos (world premiere, Britten Pears Arts commission)
Judith Weir: One day to Sing
Hilary Campbell: The Noblest Crown (world premiere, BBC commission)
Britten: Sacred and Profane op. 91

BBC Singers
Owain Park - conductor

2 hours, 58 minutes

Last on

Tue 14 Jun 2022 19:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Bliss

    A Garland for the Queen: Aubade

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.

  • Arnold Bax

    A Garland for the Queen: What is it like to be young and fair?

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.

  • Tippet

    A Garland for the Queen: Dance, clarion air

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    A Garland for the Queen: Silence and music

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.

  • Berkeley

    A Garland for the Queen: Spring, at this hour

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.

  • John Ireland

    A Garland for the Queen: The Hills

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.

  • Howells

    A Garland for the Queen: Inheritance

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.

  • Gerald Finzi

    A Garland for the Queen: The white-flowering days

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.

  • Rawsthorne

    A Garland for the Queen: Canzonet

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.

  • Edmund Rubbra

    A Garland for the Queen: Salutation

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.

  • Omri Kochavi

    Kishtatos

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.

  • Judith Weir

    One day to Sing

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.

  • Hilary Campbell

    The Noblest Crown

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Sacred and Profane Op. 91

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Six Metamorphoses after Ovid Op.49

    Performer: Emily Pailthorpe.

  • Roger Quilter

    Three English Dances Op. 11

    Ensemble: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • English Miniatures.
    • EMI.
    • 2-4.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite in F major, HWV 348, 'Water Music'

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Director: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Handel: Water & Fireworks Music: London Classical Players, Norrington.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Tue 14 Jun 2022 19:00
    BBC Radio 3