BBC Proms 2024 - Bristol Beacon 03 - BBC Singers at 100 (320kbps .mp3)

Live at the BBC Proms: to mark their centenary year, the BBC Singers perform a selection of works including John Pickard's Mass in Troubled Times with Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin.

01. BBC Proms 2024 - Bristol Beacon 3 – Part I
01a. Introduction to Bristol Beacon 3 - BBC Singers at 100
i. Judith Bingham: Unpredictable but Providential
ii. Edward Cowie: Lyrebirds – Dusk – Nocturne
02. BBC Proms 2024 - Bristol Beacon 3 – Part II
02a. Introduction to Bristol Beacon 3 - Part II
i. Judith Weir: Madrigal
ii. John Rutter: I my Best-Beloved’s am
03. BBC Proms 2024 - Bristol Beacon 3 – Part III
03a. Introduction to Bristol Beacon 3 - Part III
i. Lucy Walker: There Will Be Stars
ii. Benjamin Britten: A Shepherd's Carol
iii. Ben Nobuto: BLIP
04. BBC Proms 2024 - Bristol Beacon 3 – Part IV
04a. Introduction to Bristol Beacon 3 - Part IV
i. Asteryth Sloane: Losing the Lark, BBC commission: world premiere
ii. John Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times
05. Tavener, John - Song for Athene

BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin, conductor

Over its 100-year history the BBC Singers – Britain’s only full-time professional chamber choir – has performed a vast array of repertoire, in concert and over the airwaves, giving the premieres of countless works. Under Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin, today’s virtuosic line-up revives some of these milestones. Song for Athene was written after John Tavener attended the funeral of Athene Hariades, the daughter of a family friend; the piece won a huge international audience when performed at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997. Britten’s A Shepherd’s Carol is a setting of W. H. Auden, first heard in a 1944 BBC radio programme of new poetry written specially for Christmas Eve. Premiered in 2018, John Pickard’s Mass in Troubled Times interweaves words from the Latin Mass with texts from four other languages to piece together the story of a refugee father and daughter fleeing their war-torn country by sea.

Presented by Sarah Walker, live from Bristol Beacon.

First broadcast: 25 August 2024
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