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Performances of Benjamin Britten at BBC Singers

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Tue 5 Aug 2025
- 19:00
  Great British Classics
  Royal Albert Hall
  The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Nil Venditti celebrate Britain’s land- and sea-scapes with works including Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’
  The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Nil Venditti celebrate Britain’s land- and sea-scapes with works including Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’
  Programme
  William Walton
  Coronation March ‘Crown Imperial’(6 mins)arr. Tausky
  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  The Lee Shore(3 mins)
  Isle of Beauty(3 mins)
  The Evening Star(3 mins)
  Avril Coleridge-Taylor
  The Shepherd(4 mins)
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  The Lark Ascending(13 mins)
  Benjamin Britten
  Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’(16 mins)
  interval
  William Mathias
  Dance Overture(6 mins)
  John Rutter
  new work(8 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
  Grace Williams
  Elegy for Strings(7 mins)
  Edward Elgar
  ‘Enigma’ Variations(31 mins)
  Performers
  Liya Petrova
  violin
  violin
  BBC National Orchestra of Wales
  Nil Venditti
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  William Walton
  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  Avril Coleridge-Taylor
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Benjamin Britten
  William Mathias
  John Rutter
  Grace Williams
  Edward Elgar
  Part of
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Fri 23 May 2025
- 19:30
  BBC Singers with Sir James MacMillan at Norfolk and Norwich Festival
  Cathedral of St John the Baptist, Norwich
  Sir James MacMillan directs the BBC Singers in a programme surveying a number of his choral compositions, juxtaposed with a selection of early works.
  Sir James MacMillan directs the BBC Singers in a programme surveying a number of his choral compositions, juxtaposed with a selection of early works.
  Programme
  Benjamin Britten
  A Hymn to the Virgin
  John Tavener
  A Hymn to the Mother of God
  Judith Weir
  Ave Regina Caelorum
  Sir James MacMillan
  The Culham Motets
  O Virgo Prudentissima
  Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
  Missa Papae Marcelli
  Performers
  BBC Singers
  ensemble
  ensemble
  Sir James MacMillan
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Benjamin Britten
  John Tavener
  Judith Weir
  Sir James MacMillan
  Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
  Part of
  BBC Singers 2024-25
Fri 31 Jan 2025
- 20:00
  In Paradisum with Aurora Orchestra: London
  Kings Place
  We Aurora Orchestra for a programme that lifts its eyes to the horizon and glimpses the divine from Earth. Each of the works takes comfort in the prospect of a world beyond - in the beauty of nature, in human imagination, or in paradise after death.
  We Aurora Orchestra for a programme that lifts its eyes to the horizon and glimpses the divine from Earth. Each of the works takes comfort in the prospect of a world beyond - in the beauty of nature, in human imagination, or in paradise after death.
  Programme
  Kim Porter
  Your World
  Gustav Mahler
  Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommentrans. Gottwald
  Benjamin Britten
  Rejoice in the Lamb, Op 30arr. Imogen Holst
  interval
  Gabriel Fauré
  Requiem
  Performers
  Nicholas Collon
  conductor
  conductor
  BBC Singers
  Aurora Orchestra
  Composers
  Kim Porter
  Gustav Mahler
  Benjamin Britten
  Gabriel Fauré
  Part of
  BBC Singers 2024-25
Wed 29 Jan 2025
- 19:30
  In Paradisum with Aurora Orchestra: Bury St Edmunds
  The Apex, Bury St Edmunds
  We Aurora Orchestra for a programme that lifts its eyes to the horizon and glimpses the divine from Earth. Each of the works takes comfort in the prospect of a world beyond - in the beauty of nature, in human imagination, or in paradise after death.
  We Aurora Orchestra for a programme that lifts its eyes to the horizon and glimpses the divine from Earth. Each of the works takes comfort in the prospect of a world beyond - in the beauty of nature, in human imagination, or in paradise after death.
  Programme
  Kim Porter
  Your World
  Gustav Mahler
  ‘Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen'trans. Gottwald
  Benjamin Britten
  Rejoice in the Lamb, Op 30arr. Imogen Holst
  interval
  Gabriel Fauré
  Requiem
  Performers
  BBC Singers
  Aurora Orchestra
  Nicholas Collon
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Kim Porter
  Gustav Mahler
  Benjamin Britten
  Gabriel Fauré
  Part of
  BBC Singers 2024-25