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Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Music for the Queen of Heaven

Music for the Queen of Heaven

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Music for the Queen of Heaven

Live from Wigmore Hall, London, the Marian Consort sing Marian anthems from Byrd to Weir.

Live from Wigmore Hall, London, the Marian Consort sing anthems focussed on their namesake, the Blessed Virgin Mary, by composers from Byrd to Britten and Tallis to Judith Weir.

Live from Wigmore Hall, London.

The Marian Consort is one of the most sought-after early music vocal ensembles and today presents a programme focussed on their namesake, the Blessed Virgin Mary.  Their programme includes Marian anthems spanning over 500 years of music history, from William Byrd and Thomas Tallis to Roxanna Panufnik, Benjamin Britten and Judith Weir.

Presented by Andrew McGregor.

William Byrd: Salve Regina a4 
Roxanna Panufnik: St Pancras Magnificat 
Stephen Dodgson: Dormi Jesu 
Thomas Tallis: Videte miraculum 
Cecilia McDowall: Alma Redemptoris Mater 
Nicholas Ludford: Ave cuius conceptio 
Thomas Tallis: Euge caeli porta 
Benjamin Britten: A Hymn to the Virgin 
Robert Parsons: Ave Maria 
Judith Weir: Ave Regina Caelorum

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery (director)

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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