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Tuesday - BBC Singers at the BBC Proms Dubai

The BBC Singers perform music by Finzi, Bingham, Parry, Fairouz, Stanford, Delius, Tippett, Joanna Marsh, Gershwin and Porter. Plus the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Britten and Weir.

Katie Derham continues a week presenting performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers.

2.00pm
Inspiration in Song
Petroc Trelawny joins the BBC Singers in the Dubai Opera House at the BBC Proms Dubai for a concert recorded last week. The BBC Singers' programme explores settings of texts dealing with the end of life, the tragedy of war, the imminence of death and the encounter of new love.

Finzi: My spirit sang all day
Judith Bingham: Distant Thunder
Parry: My soul, there is a country; Never weather-beaten sail; There is an old belief (Songs of Farewell)
Mohammed Fairouz: Different Ways to Pray
Judith Bingham: The Drowned Lovers
Stanford: The Blue bird
Delius: To Be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water
BBC Singers
James Burton (conductor)

c.2.50pm
Tippett: Dance, Clarion Air
Joanna Marsh: Arabesques
Tippett: Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time
Gershwin (arranged by Richard Rodney Bennett): By Strauss
Cole Porter (arranged by Richard Rodney Bennett): Every time we say goodbye
BBC Singers
James Burton (conductor)

3.45pm
Katie Derham continues the afternoon with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Benjamin Britten and Judith Weir.

Britten (completed by Colin Matthews): Concerto movement for clarinet and orchestra
Michael Collins (clarinet and conductor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra

4.05pm
Judith Weir: Moon and Star
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Tue 28 Mar 201714:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gerald Finzi

    My Spirit Sang All Day

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: James Burton.

  • Judith Bingham

    Distant Thunder

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: James Burton.

  • Hubert Parry

    My Soul, There is a Country

    Performer: BBC Singers. Conductor: James Burton.

  • Hubert Parry

    Never weather-beaten sail

    Performer: BBC Singers. Conductor: James Burton.

  • Hubert Parry

    There is an old Belief

    Performer: BBC Singers. Conductor: James Burton.

  • Mohammed Fairouz

    Different Ways to Pray

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: James Burton.

  • Judith Bingham

    The Drowned Lovers

    Performer: BBC Singers. Conductor: James Burton.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Bluebird

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: James Burton.
    • English Madrigals and Songs.
    • NAXOS.

  • Frederick Delius

    To be sung of a Summer Night on the Water

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: James Burton.

  • Michael Tippett

    Dance, Clarion Air

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: James Burton.

  • Joanna Marsh

    Arabesques

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: James Burton.

  • George Gershwin

    By Strauss

    Performer: BBC Singers. Music Arranger: Richard Rodney Bennett. Conductor: James Burton.

  • Cole Porter

    Ev’ry time we say goodbye

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: James Burton.

  • Libby Larsen

    Deep Summer

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jessica Cottis.
    • The Welcome Arrival of Rain.
    • NMC.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Movements for a clarinet concerto

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestrator: Colin Matthews. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.
    • British Clarinet Concertos Volume 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Judith Weir

    Moon and Star

    Choir: BBC Singers. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • The Welcome Arrival of Rain.
    • NMC.
    • 6.

Credits

PerformerBBC Singers
PerformerBBC Symphony Orchestra

Broadcast

  • Tue 28 Mar 201714:00
    BBC Radio 3