Bristol Beacon 3: 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers at 100
Live at the 91¸£ÀûÉç Proms: to mark their centenary year, the 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers perform a selection of works including John Pickard's Mass in Troubled Times with Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin.
Live at the 91¸£ÀûÉç Proms: to mark their centenary year, the 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers perform a selection of works including John Pickard's Mass in Troubled Times with Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin.
Presented by Sarah Walker, live from Bristol Beacon.
Judith Bingham: Unpredictable but Providential (4 mins)
Edward Cowie: Lyrebirds – Dusk – Nocturne (8 mins)
Judith Weir: Madrigal (3 mins)
John Rutter: I my Best-Beloved’s am (7 mins)
Lucy Walker: There Will Be Stars (6 mins)
Benjamin Britten: A Shepherd's Carol (4 mins)
Ben Nobuto: BLIP (8 mins)
Asteryth Sloane: Losing the Lark (5 mins), 91¸£ÀûÉç commission: world premiere
John Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times (26 mins)
John Tavener: Song for Athene (6 mins)
91¸£ÀûÉç Singers
Sofi Jeannin, conductor
Over its 100-year history the 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers – Britain’s only full-time professional chamber choir – has performed a vast array of repertoire, in concert and over the airwaves, giving the premieres of countless works. Under Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin, today’s virtuosic line-up revives some of these milestones. Song for Athene was written after John Tavener attended the funeral of Athene Hariades, the daughter of a family friend; the piece won a huge international audience when performed at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997. Britten’s A Shepherd’s Carol is a setting of W. H. Auden, first heard in a 1944 91¸£ÀûÉç radio programme of new poetry written specially for Christmas Eve. Premiered in 2018, John Pickard’s Mass in Troubled Times interweaves words from the Latin Mass with texts from four other languages to piece together the story of a refugee father and daughter fleeing their war-torn country by sea.
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Music Played
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Judith Bingham
Unpredictable But Providential
Choir: 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin. -
Edward Cowie
Lyrebirds - Dusk - Nocturne
Choir: 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin. -
Edward Cowie
Lyrebirds - Dusk - Nocturne
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Judith Weir
Madrigal
Choir: 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin. -
John Rutter
I My Best Beloved's Am
Choir: 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin. -
Lucy Walker
There will be stars
Choir: 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin. -
Benjamin Britten
A Shepherd'S Carol
Choir: 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin. -
Ben Nobuto
Blip
Choir: 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers. Choir: 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin. -
Asteryth Sloane
Losing The Lark
Choir: 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin. -
John Pickard
Mass In Troubled Times
Choir: 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin. -
John Pickard
Mass in Troubled Times
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John Tavener
Song For Athene
Choir: 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin. -
John Dowland
Lady Hunsdon's Puffe
Performer: Jakob Lindberg.- Dowland - Selected Lute Music.
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Broadcast
- Sun 25 Aug 2024 15:0091¸£ÀûÉç Radio 3