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Radio 3 Live in Concert: Live from St Paul's, Knightsbridge: Episode 2: BBC Singers - Davies, Holst, Elgar, Darke, Browne, Parry (part 2)

Music: Classical: Choral

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Episode 2: BBC Singers - Davies, Holst, Elgar, Darke, Browne, Parry (part 2)

Live from St Paul's, Knightsbridge

BBC Singers - Davies, Holst, Elgar, Darke, Browne, Parry (part 2)

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BBC Singers under Andrew Griffiths in music by William Denis Browne and Parry.

From St Paul's, Knightsbridge, BBC Singers under Andrew Griffiths in choral music written during WWI. William Denis Browne: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis. Parry: Songs of Farewell.

Live from St Paul's Knightsbridge in London, the BBC Singers under Andrew Griffiths perform choral music written during the Great War.

Henry Walford Davies: A short Requiem - Mvt 5, Requiem Aeternam II

arr. Gustav Holst: Choral Folk Songs, Op.36b - I love my love; Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

Holst: Nunc dimittis

Walford Davies: Solemn Melody

Edward Elgar: Unaccompanied part-songs 1914 - The Shower (H. Vaughan), Op.71 No.1; The Fountain (H. Vaughan) Op.71 No.2; Love's Tempest (Maykov, trans. Newmarch), Op.73 No.1; Serenade (N.M. Minsky, trans. Newmarch), Op.73 No.2

Harold Darke: As the Leaves Fall, Op.26


Interval: Gramophones at the Front

Part 2
William Denis Browne: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis (centenary of first performance in 1914)

Hubert Parry: Songs of Farewell


BBC Singers
Stephen Farr (organ)
Andrew Griffiths (conductor)

All of the music featured in this evening's concert was written by British composers during the years of conflict between 1914-1918. Composers reacted in different ways to the horrors of war. Some turned to pastoral imagery as a form of escape, as in the folk-song settings of Holst and the part-songs of Elgar. Others, such as Henry Walford Davies and Harold Darke, composed music to honour the fallen. The main work in the second half is Parry's poignantly powerful Songs of Farewell. Parry had always been a strong admirer of German music and was convinced that the two countries could never go to war. The conflict therefore was a source of great sorrow to Parry, and this masterpiece of sacred choral writing reflects a deep and personal view of the world.

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The BBC Singers under Andrew Griffiths perform choral music written during World War I

From St Paul's, Knightsbridge in London, BBC Singers under Andrew Griffiths perform choral music written during World War I. With Davies, Holst, Elgar, Browne and Parry

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