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04/04/2015

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Live in Concert, BBC Singers and O Duo

Live from Milton Court, Bob Chilcott conducts the BBC Singers and percussionists O Duo.

Live from Milton Court, London, BBC Singers under Bob Chilcott with O Duo: music by Tormis, Esenvalds, Weir, Vaughan Williams, Sandstrom, Siegel, Cecilia McDowall and Chilcott.

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The BBC Singers, conducted by Principal Guest Conductor Bob Chilcott and joined by virtuoso percussionists O Duo, in a programme of music for voices and instruments.

Veljo Tormis: Curse upon Iron
Eriks Ešenvalds: Northern Lights
O Duo: Searching
Judith Weir: The Song Sung True
Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs

8.20 Interval: as he approaches his 60th birthday next week, Bob Chilcott reflects on his musical life and talks about some favourite recordings.

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Jan Sandström: Biegga luohte
Wayne Siegel: 42nd Street Rondo
Cecilia McDowall: When time is broke (world premiere)
Eriks Ešenvalds: The Long Road
Bob Chilcott: The Miracle of the Spring

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Bob Chilcott (conductor)

Virtuoso percussionists O Duo join the BBC Singers in a programme which explores the visceral and thrilling impact of the human voice when harnessed with percussion instruments of many kinds - starting with the blood-curdling incantation which is Veljo Tormis's curse upon the metal from which instruments of war and destruction are fashioned. Bob Chilcott's 'The Miracle of the Spring' explores one of the building-blocks of life itself, water, in the context of those parts of the world where this precious element is scarce. And - in a programme taking in several different cultures and continents - the world premiere of Cecilia McDowall's brand-new piece celebrates, in Shakespearian words, the joy of music itself.

Conducting the BBC Singers tonight, their Principal Guest Conductor Bob Chilcott celebrates his 60th birthday next week and a place as one of the choral world's best loved living composers.

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