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10 Dec 2020, BBC Radio 3 Afternoon Concert
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BBC Singers 2020-21 Messiaen's La nativité du Seigneur

BBC Singers
Messiaen's La nativité du Seigneur
14:00 Thu 10 Dec 2020 BBC Radio 3 Afternoon Concert
On the anniversary of Olivier Messiaen’s birth, organist Ashley Grote play’s Messiaen’s festive masterpiece, La Nativité du Seigneur.
On the anniversary of Olivier Messiaen’s birth, organist Ashley Grote play’s Messiaen’s festive masterpiece, La Nativité du Seigneur.

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On the anniversary of Olivier Messiaen’s birth, organist Ashley Grote play’s Messiaen’s festive masterpiece, La Nativité du Seigneur.

The nine meditations on Christ’s Nativity were written as a celebration of the motherhood of the Virgin Mary, the figure nine chosen to represent the nine months of pregnancy. Each movement serves as a musical commentary on a different aspect of the Christmas story, before which the BBC Singers perform a piece of thematicallyl linked choral music.

Messian La nativité du Seigneur

Poulenc Quem vidistis pastores

Joanna Marsh Lord, Thou hast searched me and known me

Egil Hovland The Glory of the Father

William Byrd Non vos relinquam orphanos

Adrian Peacock Venite, Gaudete!

Sarah Quartel This endris night

Naji Hakim Noël

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BBC Singers 2020-21