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

Live at BBC Proms: BBC Singers & Sakari Oramo perform Parry's Songs of Farewell alongside the world premiere of Laura Mvula's choral work, Love Like A Lion.

Live from the Cadogan Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly

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

BBC Singers
Sakari Oramo - conductor

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 Laura Mvula’s new commission is inspired by the Black Madonna in a Catalonian mountain monastery.