The BBC Singers, violinist Laura Samuel and conductor Sofi Jeannin
Live performance from the BBC singers, violinist Laura Samuel and conductor Sofi Jeannin. Intimate choral works and a vocal setting of Vaughan Williams' Lark Ascending.
The BBC singers bring a richly varied programme to this live Queen’s Hall recital, starting with Frank Martin’s truly intimate Mass for unaccompanied double choir. It spent forty years in a drawer before being performed as Martin said he ‘considered it…as being a matter between God and myself.’ Laura Samuel, leader of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra joins the BBC Singers for two pieces; Latvian composer Eriks Esenvalds’ Ancient Prairie and Paul Drayton’s arrangement of The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams, with Meredith’s poetry underpinning the soaring violin melody. In between we hear a witch's spell by Norwegian composer Cecilie Ore and late works by Harris and Mendelssohn.
Martin: Mass for double choir
Mendelssohn: Motets Op 79
Ēriks Esenvalds: Ancient Prairie
11:45
INTERVAL - Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus, performed by Royal Scottish National Orchestra and conducted in this recording by Hannu Lintu
12:05
Harris: Bring us, O Lord God
Vaughan Williams arr. Drayton: The Lark Ascending
Cecilie Ore: Toil & Trouble
BBC Singers
Laura Samuel - Violin
Sofi Jeannin - Conductor
Presenter: Donald MacLeod
Producer: Laura Metcalfe
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Felix Mendelssohn
6 Motets Op.79
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Frank Martin
Mass
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BBC Singers, Sofi Jeannin & Laura Samuel
Ancient Prairie
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Einojuhani Rautavaara
Cantus Arcticus (Concerto For Birds And Orchestra) Op.61
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William Henry Harris
Bring Us, O Lord God - Motet
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
Performer: Laura Samuel. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin. -
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Cecilie Ore
Toil And Trouble
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BBC Singers & Sofi Jeannin
Slängpolska Efter Byss-Kalle
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Claudio Monteverdi
La violetta ch'en su l'herbetta
Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Ensemble: Drottningholms Barockensemble.- Anne Sofie von Otter sings Handel, Monteverdi & Telemann.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Monteverdi: 'Lasciatemi morire'
Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Ensemble: Drottningholms Barockensemble.- Anne Sofie von Otter sings Handel, Monteverdi & Telemann.
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Broadcast
- Tue 9 Aug 2022 11:00BBC Radio 3