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BBC Radio 3Mon 19 Dec 2011 20:30 BBC Radio 3
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Lopa Kothari presents new world music and a session with singer-songwriter Vusi Mahlasela.
Episode 2 of 2, Radio 3 Live in Concert, Live from St John's, Smith Square, London
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Live from St John's Smith Square, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Britten's Ceremony of Carols and St Nicolas. Harpist Sally Pryce joins the choir of Trinity College, Cambridge for Britten's masterful setting for youthful voices of Christmas texts which begin and end with the plainsong hymn Hodie, Christus natus est.
Allan Clayton is the tenor soloist in Britten's dramatic depiction of the colourful life and joyful death of St Nicolas, Bishop of Myra, a legend that reaches "Across the tremendous bridge of sixteen hundred years..."
Britten St Nicolas op.42.
Mon 19 Dec 2011 20:30 BBC Radio 3
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