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BBC Proms - 18 July-13 Sept 2008 - The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival

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Prom 32: BBC Singers

Andrew Carwood (credit: Dmitri Gutjahr)

Ancient meets modern, as Messiaen's Mass for Pentecost, for solo organ - here performed by Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey, James O'Donnell - is interspersed with music from the 16th century.

The Missa Veni Sancte Spiritus by the Franco-Flemish Pierre de Manchicourt - a composer at last receiving the attention he deserves - offers a change of pace and texture. Andrew Carwood, a much-lauded specialist in the music of the Renaissance, leads the BBC Singers through this haunting music.

  • Messiaen Messe de la Pentecôte (29 mins)
  • interspersed with:
  • Manchicourt Missa 'Veni Sancte Spiritus' (26 mins)

James O'Donnell organ
BBC Singers
Andrew Carwood conductor

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