BBC Proms 2018 Proms at Cadogan Hall 06 – The Sense of an Ending (320kbps .mp3)

Live at BBC Proms: BBC Singers & Sakari Oramo perform Parry's Songs of Farewell alongside the world premiere of Laura Mvula's choral work, Love Like A Lion.

Endings – whether of a day, a relationship or a lifetime – are the thread that runs through this beautiful programme of English choral music performed by the BBC Singers.

Poetry by Donne, Shelley, Campion and Rossetti is reimagined in evocative settings by Bridge, Vaughan Williams and centenary composer Hubert Parry, whose choral cycle Songs of Farewell is the powerful statement of a man nearing the end of his life, while Holst’s Nunc dimittis offers a night-time prayer.

Singer-songwriter Laura Mvula’s new commission is inspired by the Black Madonna in a Catalonian mountain monastery.

01. Frank Bridge - Music, when soft voices die
01i. Introduction to BBC Proms 2018 Proms at Cadogan Hall 06
02. Ralph Vaughan Williams - Rest
02i. Introduction to Williams and Holst
03. Gustav Holst - Nunc dimittis
04. Laura Mvula - Love Like A Lion (BBC commission: world premiere)
04i. Introduction to Mvula’s Love Like A Lion
05. Hubert Parry - Songs of Farewell
05i. Introduction to Parry’s Songs of Farewell

BBC Singers
Sakari Oramo - conductor

Live from the Cadogan Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly
Broadcast: 20 August 2018, BBC Radio 3