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29/05/2012

Through the Night Susan Sharpe presents Radio 3 New Generation Artists performing music by Haydn and Mozart.

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The Choir

Choral Music for Remembrance Sunday

Episode image for Choral Music for Remembrance Sunday

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Aled Jones presents choral music for Remembrance Sunday, plus a special performance by the John Powell Singers of an ambitious new work for amateur choirs: Rhymes and Charms for Fly-Away Things by Kerry Andrew, inspired by the folklore and superstitions surrounding creatures of the air.

Music played

8 items
Timings are shown from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
  • 00:00
    Artist Image for Felix Mendelssohn

    Felix Mendelssohn 6 Choruses Op.88

    Performer: Hans-Christoph RADEMANN (director), RIAS CHAMBER CHOIR

    HARMONIA MUNDI, HMC-901992, 1-22

  • 00:02
    Artist Image for Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Solovushka [The nightingale] for chorus

    Conductor: Viktor POPOV Performer: Moscow Choral Academy Choir

    CHANT DU MONDE, RUS-288156, 1-13

  • 00:05
    Artist Image for John Tavener

    John Tavener Butterfly dreams for a capella choir

    Conductor: Stephen LAYTON Performer: Polyphony

    HYPERION, Hyperion-CDA67475, 1-1

  • 00:16
    Artist Image for John Ireland

    John Ireland Greater love hath no man - motet for treble, baritone, chorus and organ

    Conductor: John SCOTT Performer: ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL CHOIR, Huw WILLIAMS (organ)

    HYPERION, CDA-67398, 1-4

  • 00:23
    Artist Image

    Kerry Andrew Rhymes and Charms for Fly-Away Things - 1. Ladybird, 2. Magpie, Crow & Dove, 3. Bat, 4. Bee, 5. Cuckoo & Hawk

    Conductor: John Powell Performer: JOHN POWELL SINGERS, Christopher Cromar (piano)

    special commission, recorded at the BBC studio in Salford Quays

  • 00:40
    Artist Image for Clément Janequin

    Clément Janequin Reveillez vous, cueurs endormis (Le chant des oiseaux) for 4 voices

    Performer: I FAGIOLINI, Robert HOLLINGWORTH (director)

    BBC recording from the North Wales International Music Festival, St Asaph Cathedral, 15 September 2011

  • 00:47
    Artist Image for Francis Pott

    Francis Pott The Souls of the righteous for a capella choir

    Performer: Tenebrae

    Signum, SIGCD501, 1-2

  • 00:56
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    Cyril ROOTHAM For the fallen for chorus and orchestra

    Conductor: Richard HICKOX Performer: BBC Northern Singers, Sinfonia Chorus, Northern Sinfonia

    EMI, CDC7490212, 1-8

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