BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra - Mental Health Awareness Week

Penny Gore presents the BBC Singers in sacred music by women composers taken from 'Multitude of Voyces', a new series of publications dedicated to this repertoire. Plus music by Britten, Schoenberg, Puccini and Vaughan Williams performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra - continuing the focus on works from the time of the exploration of psychotherapy in Vienna in this series broadcast in Mental Health Awareness Week 2021.

Amy Bebbington: I sing of a maiden
Anna Semple: Drop down, ye heavens
Yshani Perinpanayagam: In Bethlehem above
Tamsin Jones: Noel: Verbum caro factum est
Amy Summers: Nunc dimittis
Joanna Ward: Hail, O Queen
Cecilia McDowall: The Lord is Good
Sarah MacDonald: Crux fidelis
Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade: Car auprès de toi
Gail Randall: The Call
Judith Bingham: Les Saintes Maries de la Mer
Alison Willis: I sing of a maiden
BBC Singers
Conductor Owain Park

2.40pm
Britten: Russian Funeral Music
Brass of the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Anthony Weeden

2.50pm
Anders Hillborg: En midsommarnattsdröm
Ingvar Lidholm: Motto
Lars Johan Werle: Canzone 126 di Francesco Petrarca
BBC Singers
Conductor Sofi Jeannin

Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 2
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Alpesh Chauhan

Puccini: Chrysanthemums
Strings of the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Alpesh Chauhan

3.40pm
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Elizabeth Llewellyn, soprano
Marcus Farnsworth, baritone
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor Martyn Brabbins