🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #BBCProms Ralph Vaughan Williams, Britten Sinfonia & Nicholas Cleobury: 🎵 Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis #BBCRadio3 #RalphVaughanWilliams #BrittenSinfonia #NicholasCleobury ▶️ Track on #Spotify:

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas ...
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Iona Brown, Trevor Connah, Stephen Shingles, Kenneth Heath, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner · Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending etc. · Song · 1972

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Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op....
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #ClassicalLive Arvo Pärt, Zoë Beyers, Miranda Dale, Britten Sinfonia & Zoë Beyers: 🎵 Tabula rasa #BBCRadio3 #ArvoPärt #ZoëBeyers #MirandaDale #BrittenSinfonia
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #ClassicalLive Jean Sibelius, Britten Sinfonia & Zoë Beyers: 🎵 Rakastava #BBCRadio3 #JeanSibelius #BrittenSinfonia #ZoëBeyers
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #ClassicalLive Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Britten Sinfonia & Zoë Beyers: 🎵 Symphony No. 39 in E flat #BBCRadio3 #WolfgangAmadeusMozart #BrittenSinfonia #ZoëBeyers

A Cataclysm: Nicholas Daniel steps down from the Britten Sinfonia by collaborating with Sinfonia Smith Square on a sombre concert in memory of two world wars.

Messiaen's Et Exspecto Rresurrectionem Mortuorum was the overwhelming high point.

My review for the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/02/britten-sinfonia-sinfonia-smith-square-review-st-georges-roman-catholic-cathedral-southwark-london

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Britten Sinfonia/Sinfonia Smith Square review – quiet fervour and formal grace

Conducting duties were shared between Nicholas Daniel and Benjamin Nicholas in a sombre and moving programme whose main work was Messiaen’s great memorial to the dead of both world wars

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Laura van der Heijden, Jâms Coleman: Path to the Moon album review – intriguing and beguiling

The cellist and pianist juxtapose three major 20th-century sonatas – by George Walker, Britten and Debussy – with a handful of songs in which the cellist takes the vocal line.

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‘He had a mystical aura’: cellist Guy Johnston on John Tavener’s masterpiece The Protecting Veil

His transcendent work was nominated for the Mercury prize – and today, in what would have been the composer’s 80th birthday year, it speaks even more deeply at a time of global strife

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Britten Sinfonia/Elizabeth Watts review – perfectly articulated songs of extraordinary power and delicacy

Soprano Watts captured the spirituality of Finzi’s Dies Natalis while a tribute to Afghan poet Nadia Anjuman was sung with overwhelming commitment alongside relishingly played new and old string music

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Britten Sinfonia/Elizabeth Watts review – perfectly articulated songs of extraordinary power and delicacy

Soprano Watts captured the spirituality of Finzi’s Dies Natalis while a tribute to Afghan poet Nadia Anjuman was sung with overwhelming commitment alongside relishingly played new and old string music

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