Proms 2018 Proms at ... Cadogan Hall 6 – The Sense of An Ending - BBC Proms

20 Aug 2018, Cadogan Hall

13:00 Mon 20 Aug 2018 Next Event

Proms at ... Cadogan Hall 6 – The Sense of An Ending

13:00 Mon 20 Aug 2018 Cadogan Hall

Endings – whether of a day, a relationship or a lifetime – are the theme of this choral recital by the BBC Singers. Parry’s Songs of Farewell and music by Holst, Vaughan Williams and Parry complement a new work by Laura Mvula.

Performances & Interviews

29:41

Endings - 2018 Proms Special

Time for the big finish. But what do endings in music mean? Should it all just fade away?

Aug '18BBC Radio 3

02:13

The BBC Singers perform 'Love Like a Lion' by Laura Mvula at the BBC Proms (excerpt)

The BBC Singers perform a cycle of three songs by Laura Mvula at the Cadogan Hall.

Oct '18BBC Radio 3

Programme

- - Frank Bridge
  - Music, when soft voices die(3 mins)
- - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  - Rest(4 mins)
- - Gustav Holst
  - Nunc dimittis(4 mins)
- - Laura Mvula
  - Love Like A Lion(8 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- - Hubert Parry
  - Songs of Farewell(32 mins)

Performers

BBC Singers
Sakari Oramo
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

Endings – whether of a day, a relationship or a lifetime – are the thread that runs through this beautiful programme of English choral music performed by the BBC Singers.

Poetry by Donne, Shelley, Campion and Rossetti is reimagined in evocative settings by Bridge, Vaughan Williams and centenary composer Hubert Parry, whose choral cycle Songs of Farewell is the powerful statement of a man nearing the end of his life, while Holst’s Nunc dimittis offers a night-time prayer.

Singer-songwriter and composer Laura Mvula’s new commission uses poetry by Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri.

There will be no interval