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Choir Works

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To complete this series,
Jeremy Summerly presents the second of two programmes of motets by Bach associated with funeral or memorial services. He also talks to composer
John Byron about his own performance of Verba, which takes as its subject the futility of mortality from one of the most puzzling books of the Bible. Ecclesiastes, also the source for
Bantock's 1913 "symphony for chorus". Bach Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden,
BWV 230; Furchle dich nicht, BWV 228
RIAS Chamber Choir, Berlin Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Rene
Jacobs
Bantock Vanity of Vanities
BBC Singers, conductor Simon Joly Bach Der Geist hilft unsrer
Schwachheit auf, BWV 226 Performers as above
John Byron Verba
Oxford Schola Cantorum, conductor Jeremy Summerly
Bach Singet dem Herrn, BWV 225 Performers as above
Producer Antony Pitts
Choir Works returns on Sunday 15 September

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Summerly
Unknown:
John Byron
Unknown:
Bantock Vanity
Conductor:
Simon Joly
Conductor:
Bach Der Geist
Unknown:
John Byron Verba
Conductor:
Jeremy Summerly
Producer:
Antony Pitts
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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