Steve Reich at 90

Live at the BBC Proms: The Gesualdo Six and Colin Currie Group perform choral music by Hildegard of Bingen, Machaut, Josquin and Pérotin, culminating in Steve Reich's Tehillim.

Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame – Kyrie
Pérotin: Beata viscera
Johannes Ockeghem: Motet ‘Intemerata Dei mater’
Hildegard von Bingen: Symphony of the Harmony of Heavenly Revelations – O orzchis Ecclesia
John Dunstable: Veni sancte spiritus/Veni creator spiritus
Trad. arr.Owain Park: Phos hilaron ('Hail, gladdening light’)
Josquin des Prez: O virgo prudentissima
Steve Reich: Tehillim

The Gesualdo Six
Owain Park (director)

Colin Currie Group
Colin Currie (conductor)

There will be no interval.

Vivid percussion-and-voice rhythms of the 20th century contrast with the choral consolation of the ancient. The Gesualdo Six and the Colin Currie Group come together for a Late-Night Prom that combines the Christian meditations of the Renaissance – choral works by composers including Hildegard of Bingen, Machaut, Josquin and Pérotin – with Steve Reich’s take on traditional Hebrew Psalms in his ecstatic, deeply moving Tehillim.