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Afternoon Concert: Tuesday - BBC Singers at the BBC Proms Dubai

Tuesday - BBC Singers at the BBC Proms Dubai

28/03/2017

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Tuesday - BBC Singers at the BBC Proms Dubai

The BBC Singers in music by Finzi, Bingham, Parry, Fairouz, Stanford, Delius and Tippett.

The BBC Singers perform music by Finzi, Bingham, Parry, Fairouz, Stanford, Delius, Tippett, Joanna Marsh, Gershwin and Porter. Plus the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Britten and Weir.

Katie Derham continues a week presenting performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers.

2.00pm 
Inspiration in Song
Petroc Trelawny joins the BBC Singers in the Dubai Opera House at the BBC Proms Dubai for a concert recorded last week. The BBC Singers' programme explores settings of texts dealing with the end of life, the tragedy of war, the imminence of death and the encounter of new love. 

Finzi: My spirit sang all day
Judith Bingham: Distant Thunder
Parry: My soul, there is a country; Never weather-beaten sail; There is an old belief (Songs of Farewell)
Mohammed Fairouz: Different Ways to Pray
Judith Bingham: The Drowned Lovers 
Stanford: The Blue bird
Delius: To Be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water 
BBC Singers
James Burton (conductor)

c.2.50pm
Tippett: Dance, Clarion Air
Joanna Marsh: Arabesques
Tippett: Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time
Gershwin (arranged by Richard Rodney Bennett): By Strauss 
Cole Porter (arranged by Richard Rodney Bennett): Every time we say goodbye
BBC Singers
James Burton (conductor)

3.45pm
Katie Derham continues the afternoon with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Benjamin Britten and Judith Weir.

Britten (completed by Colin Matthews): Concerto movement for clarinet and orchestra
Michael Collins (clarinet and conductor) 
BBC Symphony Orchestra

4.05pm
Judith Weir: Moon and Star
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

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