From Westminster Cathedral. The launch of Radio 3's Sounding the Millennium series, which contrasts works from the last millennium alongside world premieres from Britain's leading composers of today. Tonight's concert includes the world premiere of a work by Judith Weir contrasted with plainchant and early vocal polyphony. Orlando Consort, BBC Singers,
BBC SO, conductor Stephen Cleobury Plainchant Et Enim Sederunt Principes Anon Alleluia: Video Celos Apertos Plainchant Video Celos Apertos Perotin Viderunt Omnes
Judith Weir All the Ends of the Earth
(BBC commission: first performance)
8.10 Twenty Minutes: Latin in Anglo-Saxon England. As a reflection on the Latin texts being performed in this evening's concert, Hugh Magennis , professor of English at
Queen's University, Belfast, considers the interplay between Latin and the vernacular in the early Middle Ages.
8.30 Mahler Symphony No 2 (Resurrection) Solveig Kringelborn (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo), London Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis