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LIVE Performance on 3: Birds and Beasts

with the BBC Singers

Friday 21 January 2011, 7pm

St Paul's Knightsbridge, 32a Wilton Place, London SW1X 8SH

WALTON Cantico del sole
LIGETI Éjszaka, Reggel
LISZT Preludio per il Cantico del sol di San Francesco
KODÁLY Mátra Pictures
JUDITH BINGHAM Unpredictable but providential
BERNARD HUGHES A Medieval Bestiary (BBC commission, world premiere)
BRITTEN Rejoice in the Lamb

BBC Singers
Iain Farrington organ
Bob Chilcott conductor

The BBC Singers explore music portraying the natural world in a programme which includes St Francis of Assisi's great hymn to creation set to music by Walton, depictions of life in the Hungarian countryside by Ligeti and Kodaly, Britten's much-loved depiction of a cat and a mouse as seen by 18th-century poet Christopher Smart, and the first performance of Bernard Hughes' new work which explores the fantastical animals of medieval myth and legend.

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      • Knightsbridge or Hyde Park Corner Station (Piccadilly line) (Exit 4)

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      • To Knightsbridge or Hyde Park Corner. 9, 10, 14, 19, 22, 52, 74, 137, 434

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