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BBC Symphony Orchestra - Berio, Verdi

Radio 3 Live in Concert

Josep Pons conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Verdi's choral masterwork Four Sacred Pieces. Plus Berio's Eight Romanze and Sinfonia, featuring Synergy Vocals.

Live from the Barbican Centre, London

Presented by Louise Fryer
The BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus perform Verdi's choral masterwork Four Sacred Pieces. Synergy Vocals join the BBC SO for Berio's thrilling Sinfonia. And Josep Pons conducts.

Berio: Sinfonia

8.10 Interval music

Verdi orch. Berio: 8 Romanze for tenor and orchestra

Verdi: Four Sacred Pieces

Sarah Jane Brandon (soprano)
Atalla Ayan (tenor)
Synergy Vocals
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Josep Pons (conductor)

Luciano Berio's Sinfonia from 1969 is one of the most startling and original works of the 20th century - fragments of text decrying war and social segregation jostle with quotations from the classical canon in a shimmering multi-layered melee. The eight voices of Synergy Vocals join the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

It was Berio, too, who penned the imaginative orchestration of Verdi's rarely-performed Eight Romances for tenor and orchestra, here featuring the exciting young Brazilian Atalla Ayan.

The concert ends with soprano Sarah-Jane Brandon and the BBC Symphony Chorus joining the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Josep Pons for the master of Italian opera's Four Sacred Pieces, including the Ave Maria for unaccompanied chorus.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

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Fri 7 Dec 2012 19:30

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BBC S O
- Luciano Berio
  
  Sinfonia for 8 solo voices and orchestra vers. 1969 [5 movements]
  
  Conductor: Josep PONS Performer: BBC S O. Performer: Synergy Vocals
- Giuseppe Verdi
  
  8 Romanze, arr. Luciano Berio for tenor and orchestra
  
  Conductor: Josep PONS Performer: BBC S O.
Interval Music
- Giovanni Maria Trabaci
  
  Toccata secunda e legature for keyboard (or harp)
  
  Performer: Andrew LAWRENCE-KING - Harp
  
  Hyperion Helios.
  
  CDH55162.
  
  -1.
- Antonio Vivaldi
  
  Trio sonata in G minor RV.85 for violin, lute and continuo
  
  Performer: Jakob LINDBERG - Lute Performer: Kari OTTESEN - Cello Performer: Maria WIESLANDER - Organ Performer: Nils-Erik SPARF - Violin
  
  BIS.
  
  BIS-CD-290.
  
  -4.
- Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger
  
  Kapsberger for chittarone
  
  Performer: Mark LEVY - Viola da gamba Performer: Matthew WADSWORTH - Theorbo
  
  Deux-Elles.
  
  DXL 1044.
  
  -20.
- Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger
  
  Canario for lute
  
  Performer: Gary COOPER - Harpsichord Performer: Mark LEVY - Viola da gamba Performer: Matthew WADSWORTH - Theorbo
  
  Deux-Elles.
  
  DXL 1044.
  
  -22.
BBC S O
- Giuseppe Verdi
  
  Ave Maria for chorus [no.1 of '4 Pezzi sacri'] (Scala enigmatica armonizzata ...)
  
  Conductor: Josep PONS Performer: BBC S O. Performer: BBC Symphony Chorus
- Giuseppe Verdi
  
  Stabat mater for chorus and orchestra [no.2 of '4 Pezzi sacri']
  
  Conductor: Josep PONS Performer: BBC S O. Performer: BBC Symphony Chorus
- Giuseppe Verdi
  
  Laudi alla Vergine Maria for female voices [no.3 of '4 Pezzi sacri']
  
  Conductor: Josep PONS Performer: BBC S O. Performer: BBC Symphony Chorus
- Giuseppe Verdi
  
  Te Deum for double chorus and orchestra [no.4 of '4 Pezzi sacri']
  
  Conductor: Josep PONS Performer: BBC S O. Performer: BBC Symphony Chorus