Name: Bristol Beacon 3: BBC Singers at 100
Start: 2024-08-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-08-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Bristol Beacon

Admin

BBC Proms

Conductor

Sofi Jeannin

Others

BBC Singers

Bristol Beacon 3: BBC Singers at 100

Bristol

United Kingdom

Bristol Beacon

Bristol Beacon 3: BBC Singers at 100: Song for Athene Tavener (+2 More)

Public

Concert

Oratorio / Orchestral

Song for Athene

Mass In Troubled Times

A Shepherd’s Carol

Paul Koneri

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Off-Stage Artist

On-Stage Artist

Orchestra

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Bass-baritone

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Countertenor

Soprano

Contralto

Tenor

Baritone

Bass

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

About This Event
Over its 100-year history the BBC Singers – Britain’s only full-time professional chamber choir – has performed a vast array of repertoire, in concert and over the airwaves, giving the premieres of countless works. Under Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin, today’s virtuosic line-up revives some of these milestones. Song for Athene was written after John Tavener attended the funeral of Athene Hariades, the daughter of a family friend; the piece won a huge international audience when performed at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997. Britten’s A Shepherd’s Carol is a setting of W. H. Auden, first heard in a 1944 BBC radio programme of new poetry written specially for Christmas Eve. Premiered in 2018, John Pickard’s Mass in Troubled Times interweaves words from the Latin Mass with texts from four other languages to piece together the story of a refugee father and daughter fleeing their war-torn country by sea.

Further works to be announced for this programme.

There will be no interval

British Sign Language-interpreted

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

English

Bristol Beacon 3: BBC Singers at 100 by Tavener, John Pickard, Britten, Sun 25 Aug 2024, From (2024/2024), Conductor Sofi Jeannin, Bristol Beacon, Bristol, United Kingdom

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Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

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Further reading

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