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9 Aug 2022, The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
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BBC Singers 2022-23 Edinburgh International Festival

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Edinburgh International Festival
11:00 Tue 9 Aug 2022 The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
The BBC Singers and Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin join violinist Laura Samuel for a mystical reimagining of Vaughan Williams' 'The Lark Ascending'. Listen live on BBC Radio 3 on Tue 9 Aug, 11am.
The BBC Singers and Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin join violinist Laura Samuel for a mystical reimagining of Vaughan Williams' 'The Lark Ascending'. Listen live on BBC Radio 3 on Tue 9 Aug, 11am.

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The BBC Singers, under the sensational Sofi Jeannin - their Chief Conductor since 2018 - bring music of richness and depth in their Edinburgh International Festival recital. Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir is one of his most personal and intimate works, full of sinuous melodies, while Mendelssohn charts the church year in his majestic Motets, Op 79.

Violinist Laura Samuel, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s leader, joins the choir for the exquisite expansiveness of Latvian composer Eriks Esenvalds’ Ancient Prairie, as well as Paul Drayton’s mystical reimagining of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, for violin and wordless chorus. Jeannin closes the concert with Norwegian composer Cecilie Ore’s witty setting of the witches’ spell from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Toil and Trouble.

Listen live on BBC Radio 3 on Tue 9 Aug from 11am.

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BBC Singers 2022-23

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