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Afternoon Concert: BBC Performing Groups Round Up of the Year

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BBC Performing Groups Round Up of the Year

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The BBC Singers with contemporary Christmas Carols, live from Temple Church.

Elizabeth Alker presents a round-up of the best of the BBC Performing Groups this year. The afternoon begins with the BBC Singers live from London's historic Temple Church with a festive programme of contemporary Christmas carols, conducted by Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin and introduced by Ian Skelly. The concert includes the world premiere of the Lebanese-French composer Naji Hakim’s spectacular setting of Veni, veni, Emmanuel.  Then we head north with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu's Requiem, the work that launched his international career in 1957, and Rachmaninov's Third Symphony which was written in exile in Lucerne in the mid-thirties.

2pm

Carl Rutti: My Dancing Day                         
Michael Higgins: The Angel Gabriel                                                                              
Christopher Robinson: Rejoice and be merry                                                                                
Naji Hakim: Veni, veni Emmanuel                                                             
Roderick Williams: Queen Elizabeth's Winchester Carol                                                             
Malcolm Archer: A little child there is yborn                                                                      
Fredrik Sixten: Mary's Lullaby                                                                                                            
James MacMillan: Nova! Nova! Ave fit ex Eva                                                                       
Francis Pott: Improvisation on Adeste, Fideles                                                                                
Richard Lloyd: Love came down at Christmas                                                                        
Roxanna Panufnik: Jesus Christ is Born (Angels Sing)                                                      
James Burton: Balulalow                                                                                                                       
Matthew Martin: Novo profusi gaudio                                                                                    
Trad arr Cleobury: Quittez, pasteurs                                                    
Betty Roe: The Holly and the Ivy                                                                                                        
Judith Weir: Illuminare, Jerusalem                                                                                                  
Trad arr. Nicholson: The Lord of the Dance          

BBC Singers
Ashley Grote, organ
Sofi Jeannin, conductor                                          


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Takemitsu : Requiem for Strings
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles, conductor                              

Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3 in A minor Opus 44 
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson, conductor

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