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Proms at Sage Gateshead: Voices of the River’s Edge

BBC Proms2023

Young people’s choir Voices of the River’s Edge joins forces with the Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia and voices from across the North-East, in a celebration of vocal music.

Formed for Sage Gateshead’s 2022 Prom, the young people’s choir Voices of the River’s Edge has continued to welcome new members and to make music deep-rooted in North-East communities. This Prom brings them together with the Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia and additional massed voices from across the North-East, in a celebration of vocal music that includes a new BBC commission, Whin Lands, by award-winning composer Kristina Arakelyan.

Presented by Elizabeth Alker

1 hour, 44 minutes

Last on

Sat 22 Jul 202322:15
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Kristina Arakelyan

    Whin Lands - 1: Nightfall

    Choir: Voices of the River’s Edge. Choir: Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia. Choir: Massed voices of the North East.

  • Onutė Narbutaitė

    Vasara

    Choir: Voices of the River’s Edge.

  • Edward Elgar

    My Love dwelt in a Northern Land

    Choir: Voices of the River’s Edge.

  • Josef Rheinberger

    Abendlied

    Choir: Voices of the River’s Edge.

  • Vaclovas Augustinas

    Tykus Tykus

    Choir: Voices of the River’s Edge.

  • Kristina Arakelyan

    Whin Lands - 2: Round the Dancing Flames

    Choir: Voices of the River’s Edge.

  • Alfred Schnittke

    Three Sacred Hymns - 1: Bogoroditse devo

    Choir: Voices of the River’s Edge.

  • Roderick Williams

    Ave verum corpus Re-imagined

    Choir: Voices of the River’s Edge.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Of the Sun Born

    Choir: Voices of the River’s Edge. Choir: Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia. Choir: Massed voices of the North East.

  • Martin L. Gore (arr. Eric Whitacre)

    Enjoy the Silence

    Choir: Voices of the River’s Edge. Choir: Royal Northern Sinfonia Chorus. Choir: Massed voices of the North East.

  • Tarik O’Regan

    I Listen to the Stillness of You

    Choir: Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia. Choir: Voices of the River’s Edge. Choir: Massed voices of the North East.

  • Max Reger

    Der Mensch lebt und bestehet nur eine kleine Zeit

    Choir: Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia. Choir: Voices of the River’s Edge. Choir: Massed voices of the North East.

  • Richard Wagner

    Wesendonck Lieder - No.5: Träume

    Music Arranger: Clytus Gottwald. Choir: Voices of the River’s Edge. Choir: Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia. Choir: Massed voices of the North East.

  • Laura Mvula

    Sing to the Moon

    Choir: Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia. Choir: Voices of the River’s Edge. Choir: Massed voices of the North East.

  • Hubert Parry

    Songs of Farewell - No.4: There is an Old Belief

    Choir: Voices of the River’s Edge. Choir: Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia. Choir: Massed voices of the North East.

  • Radiohead

    Exit Music (for a film)

    Music Arranger: Torkel Rönnblad. Choir: Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia. Choir: Voices of the River’s Edge. Choir: Massed voices of the North East.

  • Kristina Arakelyan

    Whin Lands - 3: Daybreak

    Choir: Voices of the River’s Edge. Choir: Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia. Choir: Massed voices of the North East.

  • Max Bruch

    Adagio appassionato in F minor, Op.57

    Performer: Jack Liebeck. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    A Chloris

    Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Karen Cargill.
    • LINN.

  • Cheryl Frances-Hoad

    Mabel Walsh, from Magic Lantern Tales

    Performer: Sholto Kynoch. Singer: Nicky Spence.
    • CHAMPS HILL RECORDS.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    From far, from eve and morning (On Wenlock Edge)

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Nicky Spence. Ensemble: Piatti Quartet.
    • Hyperion.

Broadcast

  • Sat 22 Jul 202322:15
    BBC Radio 3