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Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers: Episode 3: Remembering the Somme

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Episode 3: Remembering the Somme

BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers

Remembering the Somme

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers, Remembering the Somme

From St Paul's, Knightsbridge, a concert marking the centenary of the Battle of the Somme.

Live from St Paul's, Knightsbridge, a concert to mark the centenary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Music by Howells, Reger, Browne, Skinner, Cras, Gurney and Parry.

Remembering the Somme: on the centenary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, Ian Skelly introduces a concert given by the BBC Singers conducted by Paul Brough, live from St Paul's, Knightsbridge, followed by a performance of Bliss's commemorative choral work Morning Heroes.

2pm LIVE
Howells: Requiem
Reger: Schweigen, Op.39 No.1
Browne: God is Our Strength and Song
Skinner: Before Action
Holst: Nunc Dimittis
Cras: Mass in D minor - Agnus Dei
Gurney: Since I Believe in God the Father Almighty
Parry: Songs of Farewell - No.4: There is an Old Belief
Bednall: Three Songs of Remembrance

BBC Singers
Paul Brough, conductor

c.3.10pm
Katie Derham introduces the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Bliss and Vaughan Williams. Arthur Bliss fought in the Battle of the Somme and composed Morning Heroes in memory of his brother who died in the fighting.

Bliss: Morning Heroes
Samuel West (orator)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)

c.4.05
Vaughan Williams: Three Nocturnes (completed by Anthony Payne)
Roderick Williams, baritone
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins.

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers

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