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Choir Works

BBC Radio 3
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Jeremy Summerly presents a programme including a performance of Elgar's cantata Caractacus to commemorate the centenary of the work's commission for the Leeds Festival.

Leeds Festival Chorus, BBC Philharmonic, conductor Simon Wright

Parry My Soul, There Is a Country; Lord, Let Me Know Mine End (Songs of Farewell) Rodolfus Choir, conductor Ralph Allwood

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeremy Summerly
Singers:
Leeds Festival Chorus
Musicians:
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor:
Simon Wright
Singers:
Rodolfus Choir
Conductor:
Ralph Allwood
Producer:
John Thornley
Eigen:
Helen Field (soprano)
Orbin:
David Rendall (tenor)
Caractacus:
Roderick Earle (bass-baritone)
Arch Druid:
Matthew Best (bass)
Bard:
Matthew Best (bass)
Emperor Claudius:
Nathan Berg (bass)
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 3

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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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