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大象传媒 Singers - Jam on the Marsh

大象传媒 Singers perform in a concert of literature from Shakespeare to Tagore and Rossetti to Manley Hopkins with readings by Janet Suzman.

As part of the John Armitage Memorial 'JAM on the Marsh' festival on Kent's Romney Marsh, Nicholas Cleobury conducts the 大象传媒 Singers in a concert of literature; from Shakespeare to Tagore and Rossetti to Manley Hopkins. 400 years after Shakespeare's death and with the Bard at its heart, this programme includes music by Vaughan Williams, Holst, Finzi and Leighton, as well as Festival Commissions by Paul Mealor and Thomas LaVoy. Dame Janet Suzman, renowned for her performances of Shakespeare, intersperses readings between the music.

Programme

Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs
Holst: The Evening Watch (Henry Vaughan)
Finzi: All this Night (William Austin)
Paul Mealor: To Seek Where Shadows Are (Christina Rossetti) (festival commission)
Martin: Songs of Ariel, from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'
Jaako Mantyjarvi: Four Shakespeare Songs
Leighton: God's grandeur (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Thomas LaVoy: O Great Beyond (Rabindranath Tagore) (world premiere)

大象传媒 Singers
Nicholas Cleobury, conductor
Dame Janet Suzman, reader

Image: Susan Pilcher.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 13 Jul 2016 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Sonnet 60

  • Frank Martin

    5 Songs of Ariel

    Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.

  • As Kingfishers Catch Fire

  • Gustav Holst

    The Evening-watch Op.43`1

    Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.

  • Kenneth Leighton

    God's grandeur

    Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.

  • Dream-Love

  • Paul Mealor

    To seek where shadows are

    Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.

  • Kenneth Leighton

    Improvisation, in memoriam Maurice de Sausmarez

    Performer: Stephen Farr.
    • Kenneth Leighton: Organ Works, Vol. 1.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 8.

  • Jaakko M盲ntyj盲rvi

    4 Shakespeare songs

    Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.

  • Gerald Finzi

    All this night Op.33

    Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.

  • On the Seashore

  • Thomas LaVoy

    O great beyond

    Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.

  • The Gardener; Verse 85

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    3 Shakespeare songs

    Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.

  • Sonnet 18

  • Joseph Haydn

    String quartet in in G major Op.77 no.1

    Ensemble: Amsterdam String Quartet.
    • Haydn - String Quartets vol.2.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
    • 5.

  • Johann David Heinichen

    Oboe Concerto in G minor S.237

    Performer: Andreas Helm. Orchestra: Irish Baroque Orchestra. Director: Monica Huggett.
    • Concerti Bizarri.
    • LINN.
    • 8.

Credit

Performer 大象传媒 Singers

Broadcast

  • Wed 13 Jul 2016 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3