A Voice of his Own: the BBC Singers perform George Walker

26 Nov 2022, Milton Court, London

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13:00 Sat 26 Nov 2022 Milton Court, London

A voice of his own: the BBC Singers perform the choral music of George Walker and his contemporaries.

Programme

Milton Court, London Sat 26 Nov 2022
- - George Walker
  - Praise ye the Lord
  - A Babe is Born
- - Samuel Barber
  - ReincarnationsReincarnations 1, Mary Hynes
- - George Walker
  - O Western Wind
  - The Bereaved Maid
  - Take, o take those lips away
- - Samuel Barber
  - Two Choruses: No.1 on the death of Antony
- - George Walker
  - Stars
- - Samuel Barber
  - ReincarnationsReincarnations 2, Anthony O’ Daly
  - To be sung on the water
- - George Walker
  - O Lord God of Hosts
- - Ned Rorem
  - Sing, My Soul, His Wondrous Love
- - George Walker
  - Blow, blow thou winter wind
- - Samuel Barber
  - ReincarnationsReincarnations 3, The Coolin
  - Two Choruses: No.2 on the death of Cleopatra
Sat 26 Nov 2022

Performers

BBC Singers
Grace Rossiter
conductor
conductor
Caroline Jaya-Ratnam
piano
piano

Composers

Event Information

As we begin a day of Total Immersion in the music of the American modernist composer George Walker, the BBC Singers present a concert devoted to his choral music – and the poetry, ranging from Shakespeare to the Bible, upon which he exercised a far-ranging musical imagination.

“Any kind of creative effort must attempt to say something new” said George Walker, but he found his voice amid a generation of American idealists, experimenters and visionaries, all determined to speak directly to their time, and their society. This concert focuses on small-scale music with a big personality, including works by Samuel Barber, and fellow pupils of Walker’s early mentor Rosario Scalero.