BBC Proms 2021: The BBC Singers with Sofi Jeannin

Penny Gore introduces another chance to hear The BBC Singers and Sofi Jeannin performing the world premiere of Shiva Feshareki's 'Aetherworld' - a piece based on the motet 'Qui habitat' by Josquin des Prez.

Experimental composer and turntablist Shiva Feshareki joins Sofi Jeannin and the BBC Singers for a choral playlist colliding the Renaissance with the present day. Works by Hildegard of Bingen, Byrd and Josquin are woven into a continuous musical sequence with pieces by Stravinsky, Feshareki, Nico Muhly and Roderick Williams. Old and new, acoustic and electronic, sacred and secular come together in this musical kaleidoscope.

The Prom is presented by Hannah French from the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Josquin des Prez: Qui habitat in adiutorio altissimi (a 24)
Thomas Tallis: Loquebantur variis linguis
Ken Burton: Many Are the Wonders
Hildegard von Bingen: O viridissima virga
Clément Janequin: Le chant des oiseaux
Bernard Hughes: Birdchant (BBC commission: world premiere)
Igor Stravinsky: Tres sacrae cantiones – Illumina nos
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Je sens en moy une flamme nouvelle
Nico Muhly: A New Flame (after Sweelinck) (BBC commission: world premiere)
William Byrd: Ave verum corpus
Roderick Williams: Ave verum corpus Re-imagined
Shiva Feshareki: Aetherworld (BBC commission: world premiere)

Shiva Feshareki - turntables/immersive electronics

Liam Byrne – viola da gamba
Stuart King – bass clarinet
Tom Rogerson – synthesizer
Delia Stevens – percussion
Kit Downes - organ

BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin - conductor