BBC Singers Discovering Music: explore the archives

• Berlioz: L'enfance du Christ

  

  Charles Hazlewood examines the background and music to Berlioz's "sacred trilogy" with the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers.

  
  

• Bruckner: Motets

  

  Bruckner's masses and motets occupy as important a place in his career as the symphonies he composed later in life, as Bruckner authority Stephen Johnson reveals in this workshop session with the BBC Singers.

  
  

• Handel: Dixit Dominus

  

  Handel's resplendent Dixit Dominus is put under the microscope, as Robert Hollingworth leads the BBC Singers and St James's Baroque in an analysis for BBC Radio 3's Discovering Music.

  Watch extracts from the workshop

  
  

• Poulenc: Mass in G

  

  Stephen Johnson delves into the workings and influences on Poulenc's distinctive and virtuosic unnaccompanied setting of the mass, his Mass in G. With the BBC Singers conducted by Bob Chilcott.

  
  

• Poulenc: Quatre motets pour un temps de penitence

  

  Stephen Cleobury conducts the BBC Singers, as they perform Poulenc's penitential motets.

  
  

• Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms

  

  Tom Service, composer Julian Anderson and Stravinsky biographer Stephen Walsh examine the Symphony of Psalms with the BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michal Dworzynski.

  
  

• Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Minor

  

  Stephen Johnson joins the BBC Singers for a look at one of the great glories of the English choral repertory - Vaughan Williams' Mass in G minor.

  
  

• Verdi: Rigoletto

  

  Stephen Johnson explores some of the ideas and music for one of the most popular and effective Italian operas of the 19th century, Verdi's Rigoletto. The cast of singers includes Anthony Michaels-Moore as Rigoletto; Laura Claycomb as Gilda; Madeleine Shaw as Maddalena; David Soar as Sparafucile and Gwyn Hughes Jones as the Duke; with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers conducted by Andrew Litton.

  
  

• Vivaldi: Gloria

  

  Robert Hollingworth explores one of the most famous of all Baroque choral works, Vivaldi's Gloria in D, RV 589, with the BBC Singers and St James' Baroque.

  
  

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