Choir
BBC Singers
professional chamber choir of the BBC
- From
- United Kingdom
- Since
- 1924–present
- Releases
- 109
- classical
About
The BBC Singers is a professional British chamber choir, employed by the BBC. Its origins can be traced to 1924. One of the six BBC Performing Groups, the BBC Singers are based at the BBC Maida Vale Studios in London. The only full-time professional British choir, the BBC Singers feature in live concerts, radio transmissions, recordings and education workshops. The choir often performs alongside other BBC Performing Groups, such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and is a regular guest at the BBC Proms. Broadcasts are made from locations around the country: London venues have included St Giles-without-Cripplegate, St John's, Smith Square and St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge.
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The BBC Singers perform with leading international orchestras and conductors. The choir has appeared by invitation at national events such as the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales in Westminster Abbey. Former members of the group include Sir Peter Pears, Sarah Connolly, Judith Bingham and Harry Christophers.
Members
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Stephen Charlesworth bass-baritone vocals
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Jennifer Adams-Barbaro soprano vocals
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Ildikó Allen soprano vocals
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Simon Birchall bass vocals
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John Bowley tenor vocals
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Paul Charrier bass vocals
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Richard Fallas bass-baritone vocals
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Margaret Feaviour soprano vocals
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Christopher Foster bass-baritone vocals
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Carolyn Foulkes soprano vocals
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Jacqueline Fox alto vocals
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Ian Kennedy tenor vocals
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Vernon Kirk tenor vocals
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Clare Lloyd-Griffiths soprano vocals
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Stuart MacIntyre baritone vocals
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Siân Menna alto vocals
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Eleanor Meynell soprano vocals
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Andrew Murgatroyd tenor vocals
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Katherine Nicholson mezzo-soprano vocals
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Alison Place alto vocals
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Elizabeth Poole soprano vocals
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Kim Porter alto vocals
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Edward Price baritone vocals
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Olivia Robinson soprano vocals
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David Roy tenor vocals
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Philip Salmon tenor vocals
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Alison Smart soprano vocals
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Julian Stocker tenor vocals
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Graham Titus bass-baritone vocals
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Judith Bingham alto vocals
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Lynette Alcántara alto vocals
Discography
Albums
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The Mask of Time
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Le Visage nuptial / Le Soleil des eaux / Figures, Doubles, Prismes
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Missa cum jubilo
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BBC Music, Volume 1, Number 4: Music for Christmas
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Chamber and Choral Music
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Lambert: The Rio Grande / Concerto / Horoscope
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Scarlatti: Stabat Mater / Vivaldi: Stabat Mater, Dixit Dominus
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Die Glückliche Hand / Variations, op. 31 / Verklärte Nacht
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BBC Music, Volume 2, Number 8: Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes and Neue Liebeslieder / Spohr: Three Psalms, op. 85 / Meyerbeer: Psalm 91
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Polska! A Celebration of Polish Music
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CRY
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Symphony no. 5 / Sancta Civitas
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Symphony no. 7 / Overture Leonore no. 1 / Choral Fantasia
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Gloria / Stabat Mater
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Faure: Pavanne / Martin: Mass for Double Choir / Britten: A Boy Was Born / Duparc: Motet
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The Knot Garden / A Child of Our Time
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Symphony no. 1 “A Sea Symphony”
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Sea Drift / Hassan / Arabesk
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Belshazzar's Feast / The Wise Virgins / Siesta
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BBC Music, Volume 4, Number 8: Motets BWV 225 – 230
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The Desert Music / Shaker Loops
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Two Choral Symphonies
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The Crucifixion
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Strauss: Choral Works
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Symphony no. 2 "St. Florian" / Pas de Quatre
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The Last Night of the Proms
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BBC Music, Volume 7, Number 4: Music for Christmas
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BBC Music, Volume 6, Number 10: Masses and Motets
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Mass in B minor
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Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern
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BBC Music, Volume 8, Number 1: Love Sacred, Love Profane
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BBC Music, Volume 10, Number 4: The Creation: Part I / Part II, Scene I
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The Birds of Rhiannon
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BBC Music, Volume 10, Number 5: The Creation: Part II, Scene II / Part III
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Kaddish / Chichester Psalms / Missa Brevis
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Vanessa
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BBC Music, Volume 12, Number 8: Sacred Music for Easter
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The English Song Series, Volume 13: Folk Song Arrangements, Volume 2
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Piano Concerto no. 2 / String Quartet, op. 55 / Shabbat Ba’aretz
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Pli Selon Pli / Le Visage nuptial / Le Soleil des eaux / Figures, Doubles, Prismes
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Death in Venice
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BBC Music, Volume 13, Number 8: Delius: To Be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water / Elgar & Holst: Partsongs
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One Star, At Last
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BBC Music, Volume 14, Number 8: Pergolesi: Stabat Mater / Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
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Francesca da Rimini
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Music for Voices
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Man I Sing: Choral Music by Bob Chilcott
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The Excursions of Mr. Brouček
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BBC Music, Volume 16, Number 11: Symphony no. 5 / Mass in G minor
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BBC Music, Volume 17, Number 5: Concerti Grossi, op. 3 nos. 1 & 2 / Chandos Anthems “As Pants the Hart”, “The Lord Is My Light”
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The Welcome Arrival of Rain
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Purer Than Purest Pure: Choral Works of Daniel Asia
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Visions
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BBC Music, Volume 22, Number 3: A Babe Is Born
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Choral Works
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Choirbook for the Queen
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The Moth Requiem
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Bob Chilcott: The Angry Planet
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Storm
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Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 97 / Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, op. 81
Live
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Au revoir
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Smyth: Der Wald
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The Last Night of the Proms 1969, 1971, 1972 (Highlights)
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BBC Music, Volume 17, Number 8: Il tabarro
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BBC Music, Volume 18, Number 4: Britten: St. Nicolas / Howells: Three Carol-Anthems
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The Last Night of the Proms 2004
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Symphony no. 2 “Resurrection”
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis / Schubert: Symphony no. 8 / Wagner: A Faust Overture
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The Last Night of the Proms 2003
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BBC Music, Volume 9, Number 1: Vespers (All-Night Vigil)
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Grainger: Brigg Fair / Delius: Brigg Fair / Irmelin Prelude / Norwegian Suite / In a Summer Garden / A Dance Rhapsody no. 2
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Last Night of the Proms (The 100th Season)
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At the Last Night of the Proms
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The Last Night of the Proms
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2002-08-20: Lucerne Festival 2002, Kulturund Kongresszentrum, Lucerne, Switzerland
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2009-03-07: Barbican Hall, London, England, UK
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198x-xx-xx: Princess Ida: [unknown location]
Compilations
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The Complete Omar Khayyám
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Pierre Boulez Conducts Schoenberg
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My Dancing Day: Choral Music by Richard Rodney Bennett
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Choral Images
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Requiem
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6 "Pathetique" / Glinka: Overture - Ruslan & Ludmilla / Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain
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BBC Music, Volume 3, Number 1: A 70th Anniversary Celebration
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Highlights From the Last Night of the Proms
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Das Chorwerk
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Also known as
BBC Chorus · Wireless Chorus · Wireless Singers
Tags
- british choir
- choir
Identifiers
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- 725af6df-7fea-4130-bd19-963a62313d2b
- ISNI
- 0000000110096454
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