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Afternoon Concert: In the Midnight Hour

Monday - Georgia Mann

In the Midnight Hour

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, In the Midnight Hour

Recently recorded concerts from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers

Music by Anna Clyne, Benjamin Britten, Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur and Ruth Gipps in concert performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers.

In this concert recorded at London's Barbican Hall in March 2018, Anna Clyne's 2015 orchestral work This Midnight Hour draws inspiration from the waltz and two poems, one by Juan Ramón Jiménez, where music is described as 'a naked woman running mad through the pure night'; the other by lover of the decadent Charles Baudelaire from his Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) . Expect a magic-lantern show in music, a panorama of vivid, intoxicating nocturnal sounds. Then Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang plays Britten's Violin Concerto, one of the most profound of twentieth century concertos for the instrument, a work that has finally emerged from the shadows and one that Frang has made her own. To conclude, Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony No.6, where a composer's infatuation with nature, sparked on his walks in the countryside around Vienna, lights the score. 
Next, the BBC Singers and their Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin explore one of the landmarks of French 20th-century choral writing -  Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur’s setting of parts of the biblical Song of Songs, Le Cantique des Cantiques.  Nigel Hess’s theme tune to Ladies in Lavender receives its world premiere broadcast in a new choral arrangement, written for the BBC Singers by the composer, alongside two works for choir by the 20th-century English composer, Ruth Gipps.
Presented by Georgia Mann.

2pm
Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour
Britten: Violin Concerto Op.15
Beethoven: Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' in F Op.68
Vilde Frang (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

c.3.40pm
Daniel-Lesur: Le Cantique des Cantiques
Nigel Hess: Kyrie 
Ruth Gipps: Easter Hymn 
Ruth Gipps: Gloria 
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin (conductor)


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