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Radio 3 Live in Concert: Live from Milton Court in London: Episode 2: BBC Singers - Copland, Whitacre, Reich (part 2)

BBC Singers - Copland, Whitacre, Reich (part 2)

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Episode 2: BBC Singers - Copland, Whitacre, Reich (part 2)

Live from Milton Court in London

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David Hill conduct the BBC Singers in a chamber version of Steve Reich's The Desert Music.

The conclusion of a concert from Milton Court in London. David Hill conduct the BBC Singers in a chamber version of Steve Reich's work The Desert Music.

Live from Milton Court the BBC Singers perform Copland, Whitacre and Reich, and time travel from the Biblical beginnings of the world to the apocalypse of the post-nuclear age.


Copland: In the beginning

Whitacre: Three Songs of faith; Waternight; Sleep

c 8.10pm: Interval

c 8.30pm
Reich: The Desert Music (chamber version)

BBC Singers
David Hill (conductor)


Presented by Martin Handley

Live from Milton Court, London

In one of the opening concerts from London's newest concert hall, the BBC Singers perform a programme of American music which journeys from the Biblical beginnings of time to the end of the world as imagined in the apocalypse of the post-nuclear age. Aaron Copland's tender re-telling of the Creation story is a much-loved 20th-century choral classic, while The Desert Music contemplates the devastation of nuclear war. In between, three characteristically richly-scored works by one of the most charismatic figures on the contemporary choral scene: composer-conductor Eric Whitacre. David Hill conducts the BBC Singers, specialist contemporary music ensemble Endymion, and leading young mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston.

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The BBC Singers perform American music, by Copland, Whitacre and Reich

Martin Handley presents one of Milton Court's opening concerts, with the BBC Singers performing American music, by Copland, Whitacre and Reich

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