BBC Proms 2020 Season - English choral music new and old [2013]

In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.

Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s long association with the Proms is reflected in this concert from 2013, in which Nicholas Kok conducts the UK premiere of The Moth Requiem for women’s voices, alto flute and three harps, a dream-like incantation of the names of the dustier cousins of the sun-loving butterfly.

Before that, pre-Reformation motets by William Cornysh and Walter Lambe, preserved in the Eton Choirbook, intersperse with alluring works by Gustav Holst and his daughter Imogen, including the third set of Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda for female voices and harp,


01. Holst, Gustav - Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda – Group 3
01a. Introduction to the choral music prom
02. Cornysh, Holst, Lambe
i. William Cornysh - Ave Maria mater Dei
ii. Imogen Holst - Hallo, my fancy, whither wilt thou go?
iii. Walter Lambe: Stella caeli
02a. Introduction to Cornysh and Holst
03. Birtwistle, Harrison - The Moth Requiem (BBC co-commission with the Danish National Vocal Ensemble: UK premiere)
03a. Interview with Harrison Birtwistle

BBC Singers
Nash Ensemble
Nicholas Kok (conductor)

Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
320kbps .mp3

First broadcast:  BBC Proms, 12 August 2013

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