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Performance on 3: Howells, Britten: Episode 1: Thu, 18 December 2008 - Part 1

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Episode 1: Thu, 18 December 2008 - Part 1

Howells, Britten

Thu, 18 December 2008 - Part 1

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Suzy Klein presents the BBC CO and BBC Singers in Christmas music by Britten and Howells.

From Lancing College Chapel, Sussex. Suzy Klein presents the BBC CO and Singers in Christmas music. Including Britten's A Ceremony of Carols and Howells' Three Carol-Anthems.

From Lancing College Chapel, Sussex. Presented by Suzy Klein.

The BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers perform a concert of Christmas music, featuring works by two 20th-century British composers.

The programme includes some of Herbert Howells's much-loved carol-anthems, include the lyrical A Spotless Rose and Here is the little door, as well as Britten's A Ceremony of Carols, a showpiece for treble voices, written during the Second World World War as the composer returned from America by sea.

Listeners who have satellite or digital TV can press their TV red button to watch this specially recorded performance for seven days from 19 December. 


Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral
Sioned Williams (harp)
Daniel Norman (tenor)
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
Andrew Carwood (conductor)

Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
Howells: Three Carol-Anthems.

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The BBC SO and the BBC Singers perform pieces by Herbert Howells and Benjamin Britten

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers perform Christmas music by Herbert Howells and Benjamin Britten

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