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Radio 3 in Concert: International Women's Day: Sun Sundar Sargam

International Women's Day: Sun Sundar Sargam

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, International Women's Day: Sun Sundar Sargam

The BBC Singers celebrate International Women's Day 2024.

The BBC Singers join sitarist Debipriya Das and conductor Ellie Slorach, to celebrate International Women's Day 2024.

The BBC Singers and guest conductor Ellie Slorach celebrate International Women's Day 2024 with a second collaboration with the sitarist Debipriya Das.  The programme is a choral journey of music marking the passing of night through to the anticipation and joy of the new day, interspersed with traditional Indian music alongside works which combine choir and sitar.  At the heart of the programme is a BBC commission, the world premiere of Reena Esmail’s Sun Sandar Sargam.

Live from St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London.
Presented by Ian Skelly.

First sitar raaga (sunset eve theme)
Hildegard: O pastor animarum 
Kerry Andrew: Salve regina 
Judith Bingham: The darkness is no darkness 
Dobrinka Tabakova: Alma Redemptoris Mater 
Second sitar raaga (night theme)
Annabel Rooney: Round me falls the night 
Eleanor Daley: Grandmother moon 
Cecilia McDowall: Regina Caeli 
Sun Keting: A Cave of one’s own 
Third sitar raaga (daybreak raaga)
Amy Beach: Peace I leave with you
Josephine Stephenson: In Manus Tuas                                   
Electra Perivolaris: Daybreak
Joan Szymko: Wake, Love, Wake!
Marie Alice Conrad: At first light 
Reena Esmail: Sun Sundar Sargam (BBC Commission, world première)
Sung raaga (on theme of morning) 
Hildegard: Ave generosa 

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Debipriya Das (sitar)
Ellie Slorach (conductor)

Followed by exclusive broadcasts of Making Music’s Adopt a Music Creator project, featuring:

Hannah Fredsgaard-Jones’ ‘Over the Moor’ performed by Voices of Exmoor (choir)
Georgina MacDonell Finlayson’s ‘Salt of the Earth’ performed by Shenstone Roses; Shenstone Singers (choirs), and tape

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