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Performance on 3: Perth Festival 2010

Performance on 3: Perth Festival 2010: Episode 1: Part 1

Perth Festival 2010

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Choral music with a Scottish flavour, from Musgrave, Johnson, Carver, Bantock and Jackson.

Presented by Mary Ann Kennedy. From Perth Concert Hall, the BBC Singers perform choral music with a Scottish flavour, including Thea Musgrave, Robert Johnson, Robert Carver.

Presented by Mary Ann Kennedy

In this live broadcast the BBC Singers bring choral music with a Scottish flavour to the Perth Festival, drawing both on the riches of Scotland's musical past and on its present.

From the 16th century, music by the great Robert Carver - monk at Scone Abbey - and by his contemporaries Robert Johnson and David Peebles.

Scotland's more recent cultural history is represented in a strikingly virtuosic setting of William Dunbar's words by Thea Musgrave (born in Edinburgh), a haunting Celtic lament by James Macmillan, music by Master of the Queen's Music, and modern-day Orcadian settler, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

Completing the programme, the UK premiere of a piece by the BBC Singers' Associate Composer Gabriel Jackson - a seascape setting words by Estonian poet Doris Kareva, a choral classic by Ralph Vaughan Williams, works with a Celtic slant by Rutland Boughton and Granville Bantock, and - a real curiosity - settings, in German, of Robert Burns' words by the great German Romantic composer Robert Schumann, who was born 200 years ago this year. 

Thea Musgrave: Rorate coeli
Robert Johnson: Gaude Maria virgo 
Robert Carver: Agnus Dei Mass Fera pessima
Peter Maxwell Davies: Sea Runes
Granville Bantock: 3 Hebridean Songs (Sea Sorrow; Song to the seals; Milking Song)
Gabriel Jackson: A ship with unfurled sails (UK premiere)

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David Hill (conductor).

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The BBC Singers perform choral music with a Scottish flavour at the 2010 Perth Festival

In a concert from the Perth Festival, the BBC Singers perform choral music with a Scottish flavour, drawing both on the riches of Scotland's musical past and on its present

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