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Seven Last Words from the Cross

The BBC Singers and their chief conductor, Sofi Jeannin, join forces with Aurora Orchestra for a performance of Sir James MacMillan's Seven Last Words from the Cross.

Chief Conductor of the BBC Singers Sofi Jeannin makes her debut at Kings Place, conducting a programme that also features works by two of north America’s most distinctive musical voices: Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw (best known for her work with a cappella group Roomful of Teeth) and Californian composer Reena Esmail, whose work combines Western and Indian classical influences. Timothy Burke’s intimate arrangement of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis and James MacMillan's Seven Last Words from the Cross completes what promises to be a highlight of Kings Place’s year-long Voices Unwrapped series.

Recorded live at Kings Place, London on Saturday 2 April.
Presented by Hannah French.

1930
Victoria: O Vos Omnes
Reena Esmail: When the Violin
Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte
Vaughan Williams arr. Timothy Burke: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

2010 - Interval
Delius: Brigg Fair 'An English Rhapsody'

2030
James MacMillan: Seven Last Words from the Cross 

BBC Singers
Aurora Orchestra
Sofi Jeannin - conductor

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Tue 5 Apr 202219:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    O vos omnes

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

  • Reena Esmail

    When the Violin

    Performer: Alexandra Wood. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

  • Caroline Shaw

    Entr'acte

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

    Choir: BBC Singers. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

  • Frederick Delius

    Brigg Fair 'An English Rhapsody'

    Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Orchestral Works (On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring / Brigg Fair / In A Summ.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • James McMillan

    Seven Last Words from the Cross

    Choir: BBC Singers. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor, Op 58

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: Late Masterpieces, Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Exsultate, jubilate, K 165

    Singer: Sylvia McNair. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.

Broadcast

  • Tue 5 Apr 202219:30
    BBC Radio 3