BBC Singers 2014-15 Season French Songs - BBC Singers

11 Dec 2014, Milton Court

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French Songs

Thu 11 Dec 2014 Milton Court, London

French music perfect for the winter season

Programme

- - Francis Poulenc
  - Un soir du neige
- - Olivier Messiaen
  - O sacrum convivium
- - Maurice Duruflé
  - Quatre motets sur des thèmes grégoriens, Op 10
- - Francis Poulenc
  - 4 Motets pour le temps de Noel
  - Mass in G major
- - Claude Debussy
  - Trois chansons de Charles d'Orléans
- - André Jolivet
  - Épithalame
- - Jean Françaix
  - Trois poèmes de Paul Valéry
- - Maurice Ravel
  - Trois chansons

Performers

BBC Singers
David Hill
conductor
conductor

Composers

Concert Information

The 20th century was truly a golden age in French music with a wealth of gloriously sumptuous and seductively perfumed harmony to be discovered. This concert reflects both the spiritual world of Poulenc, Duruflé and Messiaen, and the inspiration of French poetry on composers such as Françaix, Ravel and Debussy. From the rich, film-score sensuality of Poulenc’s Un soir de neige to the cheeky, experimental, helterskelter sound-world of Jolivet’s Épithalame, this is a perfect showcase for the virtuosity of the BBC Singers under their Chief Conductor David Hill.

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BBC Singers 2014-15 Season BBC Singers at Milton Court 2014/15 Student Pulse BBC Singers at Milton Court

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