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Radio 3 in Concert: BBC Singers at RAF Museum

22/09/2015

BBC Singers at RAF Museum

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The BBC Singers at the RAF Museum, marking the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain.

From the Royal Air Force Museum in London, the BBC Singers in a concert to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and celebrating man's fascination with powered flight.

Marking the the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, the BBC Singers visit the Royal Air Force Museum London for a concert which marks not just that famous aerial combat, but also celebrates man's long fascination with powered flight - from Icarus to the Space Age.

Recorded at the RAF Museum, Hendon, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Parry: A Hymn for Aviators
Edward Cowie: Three Spitfire Motets (world premiere)
Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue (pianola solo)
Paul Crabtree: O Icarus (world premiere)
Bob Chilcott: High Flight 

c 8.15pm: Interval
Petroc Trelawny hears more from Rex Lawson and his pianola, and looks at some of the extraordinary early and vintage aircraft housed in the RAF Museum.

c 8.35pm:
Kirke Mechem: Island in Space
Antheil: Airplane Sonata (pianola solo)
Eric Whitacre: Leonardo dreams of his flying-machine
Gabriel Jackson: Airplane Cantata 

BBC Singers
The Spitfires (The Royal Air Force Voluntary Choir)
Rex Lawson (pianola)
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

In this concert marking the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, the BBC Singers perform in the RAF Museum's Historic Hangars. The programme includes the world premieres of Three Spitfire Motets by Edward Cowie and of Paul Crabtree's new piece celebrating an Ancient Greek foray into the air. Also in the programme, Eric Whitacre's musical depiction of the flying-machine invented by Leonardo da Vinci, and Airplane Cantata - Gabriel Jackson's extraordinary musical history of the aeronautical age, in which the BBC Singers are accompanied by virtuoso pianola-player Rex Lawson.

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