Lamentations
Recorded on Thursday 13 January 2022, 7.30pm
A PDF version of this programme, including the sung texts, can be viewed here:
Thomas Tallis
The Lamentations of Jeremiah – Lectio I 9’
Dominique Phinot
Lamentations 10’
Nico Muhly
Recordare, Domine 6’
Antoine Brumel
Heth. Cogitavit Dominus 10’
INTERVAL: 20 MINUTES
Robert White
Lamentations a 5 11’
Matthew Martin
The Lamentations of Jeremiah 11’
Thomas Tallis
The Lamentations of Jeremiah – Lectio II 13’
BBC Singers
Peter Phillips conductor
Presented by Martin Handley
This concert will be available for 30 days after first broadcast (Wednesday 16 February at 7.30pm) via BBC Sounds, where you can also find podcasts and music mixes.
Biographies
Peter Phillips conductor
Peter Phillips has dedicated his career to the research and performance of Renaissance polyphony. He founded the Tallis Scholars in 1973, with whom he has appeared in nearly 2,500 concerts and made over 60 recordings, encouraging worldwide interest in Renaissance sacred vocal music.
He also conducts other specialist ensembles and is currently working with the BBC Singers, Netherlands Chamber Choir, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, INTRADA (Moscow) and El León de Oro (Spain).
He is also well known as a writer. For 33 years he contributed a regular music column to The Spectator. In 1995 he became the publisher of The Musical Times, the oldest continuously published music journal in the world. His first book, English Sacred Music 1549–1649, was published in 1991, while his second, What We Really Do, appeared in 2013. During 2018 BBC Radio 3 broadcast his view of Renaissance polyphony in a series of six hour-long programmes entitled The Glory of Polyphony.
In 2005 Peter Phillips was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture. In 2008 he helped to found the chapel choir of Merton College Oxford, where he is a Bodley Fellow; and in 2021 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford.
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Friday 18 March 2022, 7.30pm
Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas
The BBC Singers and their Chief Conductor
Sofi Jeannin celebrate the work of one of England’s finest and
most-celebrated composers of the Baroque era, Henry Purcell.
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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 includes a concert of restorative, radiant choral music conducted by Howard Goodall. 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
Alice Gribbin
Rebecca Lea
Clare Lloyd-Griffiths
Olivia Robinson
Emma Tring
Altos
Margaret Cameron
Jessica Gillingwater
Eleanor Minney
Katherine Nicholson
Tenors
Peter Davoren
Benjamin Durrant
Stephen Jeffes
Tom Raskin
Basses
Charles Gibbs
Jamie W. Hall
Jimmy Holliday
Edward Price
Andrew Rupp
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