BBC Proms 2023 - Proms at Sage Gateshead - Voices of the River’s Edge (320kbps .mp3)


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.

01. Voices of the River’s Edge concert
01a. Introduction to Voices of the River’s Edge
01b. Outro to Voices of the River’s Edge concert


Kristina Arakelyan - Whin Lands - 1: Nightfall
Onutė Narbutaitė - Vasara
Edward Elgar - My Love dwelt in a Northern Land
Josef Rheinberger - Abendlied
Vaclovas Augustinas - Tykus Tykus
Kristina Arakelyan - Whin Lands - 2: Round the Dancing Flames
Alfred Schnittke - Three Sacred Hymns - 1: Bogoroditse devo
Roderick Williams - Ave verum corpus Re-imagined
Dobrinka Tabakova - Of the Sun Born
Martin L. Gore (arr. Eric Whitacre) - Enjoy the Silence
Tarik O’Regan - I Listen to the Stillness of You
Max Rege -Der Mensch lebt und bestehet nur eine kleine Zeit
Richard Wagner - Wesendonck Lieder - No.5: Träume
Laura Mvula - Sing to the Moon
Hubert Parry - Songs of Farewell - No.4: There is an Old Belief
Radiohead - Exit Music (for a film)
Kristina Arakelyan - Whin Lands - 3: Daybreak

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


Presented by Elizabeth Alker



First broadcast: 22 July 2023

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