1950: The BBC Singers tour Italy for the first time and give UK premieres of major works by Frank Martin, Darius Milhaud and Paul Hindemith.
1951: George Enescu conducts Bach's Mass in B
1954: Thomas Beecham records the Mozart Requiem. Premieres of works by Gerald Finzi and Karol Szymanowski.
1956: To mark its tenth anniversary, the Third Programme commissions for the Singers a new work from Anthony Milner The Harrowing of Hell - the BBC's first commission for unaccompanied choir.
1959: Stravinsky conducts his opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex.
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