Radio 3 in Concert

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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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The best concerts from across the UK and Europe. Available to listen online for 30 days

Experience the best concerts from across the UK and Europe. Available to listen online for 30 days

Radio 3 in Concert: A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, A Christmas Carol

Mel Giedroyc joins the BBC Singers and Bob Chilcott for a musical take on Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

“Marley was dead, to begin with”. So begins A Christmas Carol, the iconic Christmas story by Charles Dickens that has done more to mould the idyl of a traditional Christmas than any other story.

The BBC Singers join Principal Guest Conductor Bob Chilcott and narrator Mel Giedroyc for the UK premiere of Benedict Sheehan’s A Christmas Carol. Retelling the classic Dickens Christmas story, Sheehan’s score features original music alongside traditional carols for all the family – including The First Nowell, The Truth from above, God rest you, merry gentlemen, The Sussex Carol and It Came Upon the Midnight Clear – but not before a first half-filled with some of our best-loved Christmas choral music.

Presented by Ian Skelly, recorded at Milton Court, London. 

Programme:

Peter Wishart: Alleluya, a new work is come on hand 2'15"
Lucy Walker: There is no rose 3'
Caroline Shaw: The Children's Eye 7'
Brittney Boykin: Coventry Carol 3’
Suzzie Vango: Gaudete 2’40”
David Willcocks: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Pierpont arr. Ben Parry: Jingle Bells 

c.20:00 Interval (CD)
Nigel Hess: Christmas Overture
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, John Rutter - conductor

Benedict Sheehan: A Christmas Carol  (UK Premiere)

BBC Singers 
Mel Giedroyc - narrator
Bob Chilcott - conductor

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