Sir James MacMillan directs the BBC Singers in music by Palestrina, John Tavener and a some of his own works in a concert recorded at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.
Sir James MacMillan directs the BBC Singers in a programme ranging from Palestrina's epoch-defining Missa Papae Marcelli to some of his own choral compositions. And, to start with, two choral classics of the twentieth century: a gem in praise of the Virgin by the nineteen-year-old Benjamin Britten and Sir John Tavener's apocalyptic Hymn to the Mother of God. The voices of the award-winning BBC Singers resound in the spacious acoustics of Norwich's Cathedral of St John the Baptist, one of the most splendid Victorian Gothic Revival buildings in the country.
Presented by Ian Skelly.
Britten: Hymn to the Virgin
John Tavener: Hymn to the Mother of God
Judith Weir: Ave Regina Caelorum
MacMillan: The Culham Motets
MacMillan: O Virgo Prudentissima
Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
Recorded 23 May at Cathedral of St John the Baptist, Norwich as part of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.
