World War One
19:30 Sun 29 Jun 2014 St Paul's Knightsbridge
BBC Singers perform a concert of choral, folk and part songs written between 1914-1918.
BBC Singers perform a concert of choral, folk and part songs written between 1914-1918.
Programme
- A Short Requiem
- 6 Choral Folk Songs, Op 36b(selection)
- Nunc dimittis
- Solemn Melody
- Five Unaccompanied Part Songs
- As the leaves fall
- Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G major
- Songs of Farewell
Performers
- Andrew Griffithsconductor
- Stephen Farrorganist
Concert Information
As part of the BBC’s WWI centenary season, Andrew Griffiths conducts the BBC Singers and organist Stephen Farr in this concert of choral, folk and part songs written between 1914-1918.
Part songs by Elgar and Holst can be heard alongside Harold Darke’s lament for the fallen, As the Leaves Fall, set to a text by the little-known soldier Joseph Courtenay and Walford Davies’ A Short Requiem written just before he was made the first Director of Music with the then newly created RAF in 1918. Parry’s Songs of Farewell concludes the concert with songs written in the final two years of the conflict.
