Performance

VenuePerth Theatre
Other spaces: Perth Concert Hall, Norie-Miller Studio, Horsecross
TownPerth
CountyPerth and Kinross
From26th May 2010
To26th May 2010
When19:00
What is currently on at Perth Theatre (V637)

BBC Singers

T02054469932


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Scottish Connections

The BBC Singers bring choral music with a Scottish flavour to the Perth Festival, drawing both on the riches of Scotland’s musical past and on its present featuring 16th century music by the great Robert Carver (monk at Scone Abbey) and by his contemporaries Robert Johnson and David Peebles. Scotland’s more recent cultural history is represented in a strikingly-virtuosic setting of William Dunbar’s words by Thea Musgrave (born in Edinburgh), a haunting Celtic lament by James Macmillan, music by Master of the Queen’s Music and modern-day Orcadian settler, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, and the world premiere of a new piece by the BBC Singers’ Associate Composer Gabriel Jackson which sets words by Perth poet Robin Bell. Completing the programme, a choral classic by Ralph Vaughan Williams, works with a Celtic slant by Rutland Boughton and Granville Bantock, and - a real curiosity - settings, in German, of Robert Burns’ words by the great German Romantic composer Robert Schumann, who was born 200 years ago this year.

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