Celebrating 100 years of the BBC – A Century of Reflection
Sunday 13 February 2022, 4.00pm
A PDF version of this programme, including the sung texts, can be viewed here:
Judith Weir
Love bade me welcome 14’
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Mass in G minor (except Credo) 14’
interspersed with:
Melissa Dunphy Suite Remembrance – ‘Mourning into Dancing’ 2’
Roxanna Panufnik Child of Heaven 3’
Philip Herbert Agnus Dei (Elegy) 5’
Errollyn Wallen PACE 6’
Arnold Bax This Worldes Joie 7’
INTERVAL: 20 MINUTES
Walford Davies
God Be in My Head 2’
Howard Goodall
Unconditional Love European Premiere36’
Francesca Massey organ
Richard Pearce piano
BBC Singers
Bella Tromba Brass Ensemble
Howard Goodall conductor
Presented by Natasha Riordan
This concert is being broadcast live by BBC Radio 3 as part of ‘BBC 100 – Celebrating our Orchestras and Choirs’. It will be available for 30 days after broadcast via BBC Sounds, where you can also find podcasts and music mixes.
Biographies
Howard Goodallconductor
Photo: Matthew Richards
Photo: Matthew Richards
Howard Goodall CBE is a composer of musicals, TV and film scores and orchestral and choral music, as well as a music historian and broadcaster.
His TV and film work includes Mr Bean, Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Q.I., Johnny English and The Vicar of Dibley. His score for the HBO film Into the Storm won a 2009 Primetime EMMY award for Original Dramatic Score.
Howard Goodall’s music has been commissioned to mark many national ceremonies and memorials, and his choral works The Lord Is My Shepherd and Love Divine are widely performed, featuring on several platinum-selling CDs. His Eternal Light: A Requiem has had over 700 live performances throughout the world since its premiere in 2008, and won him a Classical BRIT Award for Composer of the Year. His 2009 Enchanted Voices, a setting of the Beatitudes, was No. 1 in the Specialist Classical CD chart for six months, winning him a Gramophone Award. In 2012 his Rigaudon formed part of the New Water Music that accompanied Queen Elizabeth II on her Diamond Jubilee Regatta, and in 2014 his choral work Sure of the Sky, Sure of the Sun was performed at the St Symphorien military cemetery to mark the centenary of the First World War.
Other large-scale choral works include Every Purpose Under the Heaven: The King James Bible Oratorio (2011), Invictus: A Passion (2017), Never to Forget (2020–21), for the London Symphony Chorus, paying tribute to health and social care workers who have died in the Covid-19 pandemic, and Unconditional Love, which received its world premiere in Houston in November 2021.
In the past 20 years Howard Goodall has written and presented his own TV documentary series on the theory and history of music. For these he has been honoured with a BAFTA Award, an RTS Judges’ Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Education in Broadcasting and over a dozen other international broadcast awards. In recent years he has been England’s first ever National Ambassador for Singing and Classic FM’s Composer-in-Residence.
BBC Singers
The BBC Singers have held a unique place at the heart of the UK’s choral scene for almost 100 years and have collaborated and performed with many of the world’s leading composers, conductors and soloists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The current Chief Conductor of the BBC Singers is Sofi Jeannin.
The BBC Singers promote a 50:50 gender policy for composers whose music they perform, and champion inclusivity for composers from all backgrounds. Recent concerts and recordings include music by Joanna Marsh, Cecilia McDowall, Roxanna Panufnik, Sun Keting, Errollyn Wallen and Roderick Williams. In addition, recent seasons have seen diverse creative collaborations with singers Katie Melua, Laura Mvula and Clare Teal, South Asian dance company Akademi, world music fusion band Kabantu and choreographer Duwane Taylor alongside artists from East London Dance.
As well as their annual performances at the First and Last Nights of the BBC Proms, the 2021 season saw them perform a conceptual Prom featuring composer and turntablist Shiva Feshareki. The BBC Singers are based at the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios, where they rehearse and record regularly for BBC Radio 3. They also perform an annual series of concerts at Milton Court Concert Hall in London. The 2021–22 season included a Christmas extravaganza featuring festive music from the Roaring Twenties. The group also gives free concerts at a number of venues across London and appears regularly at major festivals across the UK and abroad, with the vast majority of its performances broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
The BBC Singers also offer a wide programme of innovative learning and community activities, working with schools, colleges/universities and community groups, and take a leading role in BBC Ten Pieces and BBC Young Composer. When vacancies arise, the group encourages applications from all areas of our diverse UK community.
Chief Conductor
Sofi Jeannin
Principal Guest Conductor
Bob Chilcott
Sopranos
Rebecca Lea
Clare Lloyd-Griffiths
Ruth Provost
Olivia Robinson
Anna Crookes
Altos
Margaret Cameron
Eleanor Minney
Jessica Gillingwater
Katherine Nicholson
Tenors
Stephen Jeffes
Peter Davoren
Tom Raskin
Ben Durrant
Basses
Andrew Rupp
Edward Price
Jamie W. Hall
Jimmy Holliday
Charles Gibbs
Director
Paul Hughes
Choral Manager
Rob Johnston
Producer
Jonathan Manners
Assistant Choral Managers
Jessica Robson-Hill
Alexander Turner
Assistant Producer
Jo Harris
Music Libraries Manager
Mark Millidge
Librarian
Naomi Anderson
Business Accountant
Nimisha Ladwa
Business Affairs Executive
Pamela Wise
BBC London Orchestras and Choirs Marketing
and Learning
Head of Marketing, Publications and Learning
Kate Finch
Communications Manager
Camilla Dervan
Publicist
Sam Johnston
Marketing Manager
Sarah Hirons
Marketing Executives
Jennifer Barrett
Patrick Reardon-Morgan
Senior Learning Managers
Lauren Creed
Ellara Wakely
Learning Managers
Siân Bateman
Laura Mitchell
Chloe Shrimpton
Learning Co-ordinators
Gabrielle Chudi
Catherine Humphrey
Learning and Community Engagement Trainees
Chifaa Khelfaoui
Martin O-Whyte
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