Episode 1
British music performed by Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Orchestras. Includes live from St Paul's, Knightsbridge: Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Singers in music including Vaughan Williams. Plus Alwyn, Britten, Elgar and Grainger.
Best of British with the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Orchestras
A week of programmes bring together some of the best loved British composers and their key works performed by Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Orchestras and the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Singers.
Today we start with a live concert at 2pm, from St. Paul's, Knightsbridge. The Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Singers with conductor Andrew Griffiths in a programme including Vaughan Williams' Mass in G minor - the first proper English Mass since William Byrd, honouring his debt to the first golden age of English Music in the Sixteenth century.
And to end the programme, one of the quintessential British works of the 20th Century - Elgar's Enigma Variations.
In between, a thread running across the week is Britten's 5 Canticles - intense chamber works with solo voices that Britten wrote between 1947 and 1974. The tenor, fresh from the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ's New Generation Artists scheme, is Ben Johnson.
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor
Plus Tudor/Jacobean motets
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Singers,
Andrew Griffiths (conductor).
3.05pm
William Alwyn: Flute Concerto
Emily Beynon (flute),
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ National Orchestra of Wales,
Bramwell Tovey (conductor).
3.30pm
Britten: Canticle I - My beloved is mine, Op. 40
Ben Johnson (tenor),
James Baillieu (piano).
3.50pm
Elgar: Variations on an original theme ('Enigma'), Op. 36
Grainger: Molly on the shore
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Philharmonic,
Juanjo Mena (conductor).
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Music Played
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William Alwyn
Concerto for flute (orch. McCabe)
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Benjamin Britten
Canticle I - My beloved is mine Op.40 for high voice and piano
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Edward Elgar
Variations on an original theme ('Enigma') Op.36 for orchestra
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Percy Grainger
Molly on the shore vers. for orch/wind band
Broadcast
- Mon 14 Jan 2013 14:00Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Radio 3