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Radio 3 Live in Concert: BBC Singers - 20th-Century English Music

BBC Singers - 20th-Century English Music

08/07/2013

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The BBC Singers and Paul Brough in 20th-century English music for choir and organ.

The BBC Singers conducted by Paul Brough perform 20th-century music for choir and organ by English composers including Howells, Walton, Britten and Lennox Berkeley.

Live from St Paul's, Knightsbridge

Presented by Martin Handley

The BBC Singers conducted by Paul Brough perform 20th century music for choir and organ by English composers including Howells, Walton, Britten and Lennox Berkeley.


Herbert Howells - Te Deum (Collegium regale)

Howells - Take him, earth, for cherishing

Howells - Psalm Prelude Set 2 No. 3 (Sing unto him a new song)

Lennox Berkeley - A Festival anthem Op. 21'2

8.10: Interval

8.30:
Benjamin Britten - Festival Te Deum (in E)

William Walton - Cantico del sole

Walton arr Herbert Murrill - Crown Imperial - coronation march (organ solo)

Walton - The Twelve


The BBC Singers
Richard Pearce (organ)
Paul Brough (conductor)


Martin Handley introduces 20th music for chorus and organ by English composers, in a programme that highlights striking a cappella works from Walton and Howells, interspersed with organ voluntaries performed by Richard Pearce at St Paul's Knightsbridge.

Celebration and commemoration are the themes that run through this concert with pieces written for coronations and festivals, including Howell's intensely moving "Take him, earth, for cherishing" written upon the death of President J.F. Kennedy who was assasinated 50 years ago in 1963.

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