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Sun 25 Aug 2024

• 15:00

  Bristol Beacon 3: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Singers at 100

  Bristol Beacon

  Celebrating 100 years since its formation, the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Singers performs a selection of a cappella masterpieces including Tavener’s Song for Athene and Britten’s A Shepherd’s Carol, led by Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin.

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  Celebrating 100 years since its formation, the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Singers performs a selection of a cappella masterpieces including Tavener’s Song for Athene and Britten’s A Shepherd’s Carol, led by Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin.

  Programme

  • • • Judith Bingham
      • Unpredictable but Providential(4 mins)
    • • Edward Cowie
      • Lyrebirds – Dusk – Nocturne(8 mins)
    • • Judith Weir
      • Madrigal(3 mins)
    • • John Rutter
      • I my Best-Beloved’s am(7 mins)
    • • Lucy Walker
      • There Will Be Stars(6 mins)
    • • Benjamin Britten
      • A Shepherd's Carol(4 mins)
    • • Ben Nobuto
      • BLIP(8 mins)
    • • Asteryth Sloane
      • Losing the Lark(5 mins)Â鶹ԼÅÄ commission: world premiere
    • • John Pickard
      • Mass in Troubled Times(26 mins)
    • • John Tavener
      • Song for Athene(6 mins)

  Performers

  • Â鶹ԼÅÄ Singers
  • Sofi Jeannin

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Judith Bingham
  • Edward Cowie
  • Judith Weir
  • John Rutter
  • Lucy Walker
  • Benjamin Britten
  • Ben Nobuto
  • Asteryth Sloane
  • John Pickard
  • John Tavener

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• 17:00

  Bristol Beacon 4: Evelyn Glennie plays Jennifer Higdon

  Bristol Beacon

  The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Kirill Karabits perform Tchaikovsky’s heart-on-sleeve Symphony No. 5, alongside Jennifer Higdon’s flamboyant Percussion Concerto with soloist Evelyn Glennie.

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  The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Kirill Karabits perform Tchaikovsky’s heart-on-sleeve Symphony No. 5, alongside Jennifer Higdon’s flamboyant Percussion Concerto with soloist Evelyn Glennie.

  Programme

  • • • Théodore Akimenko
      • Angel (PoeÌ€me-Nocturne)(10 mins)
    • • Jennifer Higdon
      • Percussion Concerto(24 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Niloufar Nourbakhsh
      • Knell(4 mins)UK premiere
    • • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
      • Symphony No. 5 in E minor(50 mins)

  Performers

  • Evelyn Glennie

    percussion
    percussion
  • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
  • Kirill Karabits

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Théodore Akimenko
  • Jennifer Higdon
  • Niloufar Nourbakhsh
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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• 19:30

  Prom 46: Holst’s The Planets

  Royal Albert Hall

  Holst’s suite The Planets is one of classical music’s most extraordinary acts of imagination. Student musicians from Helsinki and London unite to perform the work alongside Sibelius’s The Wood Nymph and a new piece from Finnish-American composer Lara Poe.

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  Holst’s suite The Planets is one of classical music’s most extraordinary acts of imagination. Student musicians from Helsinki and London unite to perform the work alongside Sibelius’s The Wood Nymph and a new piece from Finnish-American composer Lara Poe.

  Programme

  • • • Jean Sibelius
      • The Wood Nymph(22 mins)
    • • Lara Poe
      • Laulut maaseudulta (Songs from the Countryside)(18 mins)Â鶹ԼÅÄ commission: world premiere
    • • interval
    • • Gustav Holst
      • The Planets(50 mins)

  Performers

  • Anu Komsi

    soprano
    soprano
  • Royal College of Music Chamber Choir
  • Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra
  • Sibelius Academy Symphony Orchestra
  • Sakari Oramo

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Jean Sibelius
  • Lara Poe
  • Gustav Holst

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