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Last broadcast on Sun, 19 Jul 2009, 16:55 on BBC Two (Scotland only) (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
As the Proms season begins, Aled Jones discovers how many of the nation's favourite hymns have been influenced by Britain's best-known composers, including Edward Elgar and Ralph Vaughan Williams. He finds out who composed the inspirational tunes associated with I Vow to Thee My Country and Jerusalem, and John Rutter talks about the impact of the church on his own music.
Songs of Praise factsheet for Sunday 19 July 2009
Composers
Presented by Aled Jones
Interviews:
BRIAN KAY has become one of the nation's favourite broadcasters. He is the Festival Conductor of the Leith Hill Musical Festival.
Related website: http://www.trbc.co.uk/conductors2.php?condid=3
ANDREW CLARKE is a local historian. He lives near Thaxted and is a member of the Foxearth and District Local History Society. His article about Holst in Thaxted, entitled I Ring for the General Dance can be found on the Society's website at http://www.foxearth.org.uk/holst.html
JOHN RUTTER is known as one of the world's most successful composers of sacred music. He spoke to Songs of Praise about how the church and the hymns he heard as a young boy in school assemblies have had a profound effect on his music.
Related website: http://www.oup.co.uk/music/repprom/rutter/
JEREMEY DIBBLE Professor of Music at Durham University spoke to Aled about the life and work of Charles Hubert Hastings Parry.
Related website: http://www.dur.ac.uk/jeremy.dibble/
PAUL SPICER is one of the leading choirtrainers in the UK.
Related website: http://www.paulspicer.com/
Music:
Hymn: Come Down, O Love Divine
Tune: Down Ampney
Music: Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Words: Bianco da Siena, d. 1434. Tr. Littledale, R. F.
Hymn: My Song is Love Unknown
Tune: Love unknown
Music: John Ireland (1879-1962) Words: Samuel Crossman (1624-83 or 84)
Hymn: For All The Saints
Tune: Sine Nomine
Music: Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)
Words: Bishop How, W W (1823-97)
Hymn: I Vow To Thee My Country
Source: BBC Songs of Praise Hymnbook #380
Tune: Thaxted
Music: Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Words: Cecil Spring –Rice (1859-1918)
Arranger: Geoff Ellerby
Hymn: Jesus My Lord, My God My All
Music: Elgar
Words: Henry Collins, 1854
Arranger: Andrew Earis
Hymn: The Lord Bless and Keep You
Music: John Rutter
Arranger: John Rutter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Hymn: The Long Day Closes
Music: Arthur Sullivan
Words: Henry Fothergill Chorley
Hymn: And Did Those Feet in Ancient Times
Source: SOP Hymnbook #375 pg 700-7 Oxford University Press ISBN 0191473251
Tune: Jerusalem
Music: C Hubert H Parry (1848-1918)
Words: William Blake (1757-1827)
Arranger: Paul Leddington Wright
Performers:
Aberdeen University Chapel Choir
The Arnold Singers, Rugby School
The Coventry Singers
The King's Singers
Choir and Congregation of St Mary's, Primrose Hill
St Sepulchre Singers
Organists:
Brian Almond
Andrew Jones
Tim Byram-Wigfield
Max Pappenheim
Emma Gibins
Featured composers:
John Ireland
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Gustav Holst
Sir Edward Elgar
John Rutter
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Hubert Parry
Credits
- Presenter
- Aled Jones
- Participant
- John Rutter
- Producer
- Jennifer Page
- Executive Producer
- Tommy Nagra
Broadcasts
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Sun 19 Jul 200916:25
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Sun 19 Jul 200916:55
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