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| Afternoon On 3 | ...Live from London's Cadogan Hall, Christopher Cook presents mezzo-soprano Alice Coote, who revisits the poignant song cycle specially composed for her by JUDITH WEIR, a series of fleeting conversations between humans and birds. This is set in the context of music by earlier generations of lyrical English song composers.... |
| Bbc Proms | ...The celebration of Cambridge University's 800th anniversary continues, with music by Jonathan Harvey and JUDITH WEIR, who studied at Cambridge, and Camille Saint-Saens, who was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university in 1893.... |
| Bbc Singers | ...JUDITH WEIR: Telling the Tale... |
| Choir, The | ...Aled Jones presents a special concert by the BBC Singers marking the 60th birthday of their Conductor Laureate, Stephen Cleobury. Including specially-commissioned pieces by JUDITH WEIR, Judith Bingham, Gabriel Jackson and Bob Chilcott, and a guest appearance by American choir VocalEssence.... |
| Hear And Now | ...In celebration of the spnm's 60th anniversary, Alwynne Pritchard introduces an spnm concert recorded in June at the Spitalfields Festival, featuring the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Richard Baker. JUDITH WEIR: King Harald sails to Byzantium Iain Matheson: Pieces of pieces (WP) Philip Neil Martin: Long After Darkness Cover (WP) Thea Musgrave: Lamenting with Ariadne (London Premiere) Also tonight, part of an spnm concert curated by Robert Saxton and given by the BBC Singers, including works by Elisabeth Lutyens and Elizabeth Maconchy - both important figures in the early years of the spnm - plus Woefully Arrayed by a composer also 60 this year, Robin Holloway.... |
| Interval | ...JUDITH WEIR talks to Iain Burnside about her songs and the texts she likes to use.... |
| Judith Weir - Stories From Life | |
| Judith Weir - Telling The Tale | |
| Listen Up! | ...JUDITH WEIR: Heroic strokes of the bow... |
| Music Matters | ...Ivan Hewett investigates what the appointment of the new mayor will mean for the capital's musical life. Plus an examination of the potentially difficult relationship between television and contemporary music, as ITV's `The South Bank Show' tackles music by Simon Holt and JUDITH WEIR ... |
| Opera In Action | ...Graeme Kay presents the first of six programmes exploring how countries and nationalities have been treated in opera down the ages and how different composers have portrayed one country's history and people. Today, he focuses on Scotland, with excerpts from Donizetti's `Lucia di Lammermoor', Bizet's `La jolie fille de Perth', MacCunn's `Jeanie Deans', Verdi's `Macbeth' and JUDITH WEIR's `The Vanishing Bridegroom'.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...JUDITH WEIR: Natural History... |
| Pre-hear | ...Modern takes on older pieces, including JUDITH WEIR's roll off the ragged rocks of sin played by the pianist Antony Gray and based on JS Bach's aria Wer bist du? Frage dein Gewissen, from Cantata No 132.... |
| Private Passions | ...Michael Berkeley talks to poet Wendy Cope, whose musical choices include Tallis, Britten, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven and JUDITH WEIR ... |
| Viderunt Omnes | ...Ten pieces commissioned by the EBU from composers around the world to celebrate the new millennium. All the pieces are to use `Viderunt omnes' by the medieval composer Perotin, and they are all broadcast over the next fortnight. 1: British composer JUDITH WEIR's `All the Ends of the Earth' is performed by the BBC Singers directed by Stephen Cleobury.... |
| Voices | ...The Songs Of JUDITH WEIR... |
| Wagner Effect, The | ...Christopher Cook seeks to reveal the seemingly irresistible allure and enduring power of Richard Wagner's drama, thought and music. He talks to musicians whose working lives are dedicated to the composer's art and to other artists who have been touched by the Wagner effect. With contributions from poet Peter Porter, conductor Mark Elder, singers Anne Evans and John Tomlinson, opera director Richard Jones, composers Steve Martland and JUDITH WEIR, and painter David Hockney.... |
| Words And Music | ...With works by Keats, Shelley, Charlotte Bronte, Christina Rossetti and Yeats interspersed with music by Stravinsky, JUDITH WEIR, Schubert, Purcell and Kathryn Tickell.... |
| Year, The | ...In the last programme of the series Anthony Burton and Ivan Hewett are joined by George Benjamin, artistic consultant of the `Sounding the Century' festival, to discuss the series as a whole and to introduce their choice of significant musical premieres from this year. Contenders include works by John Adams, JUDITH WEIR, Magnus Lindberg, Simon Bainbridge and Kaija Saariaho.... |