主播大秀

Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

From the chapel of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury conducts the 主播大秀 Singers in a special concert for Good Friday. This most solemn day of the church year is marked with Poulenc's four motets for penitential seasons, composed on the eve of the Second World War, followed by three dances for solo organ, depicting life's joys, sadnesses and struggles, by the young organ virtuoso Jehan Alain, who was killed in action in 1940.

There is also the first performance of a new work by Judith Bingham which explores ideas about betrayal and loyalty to the faith, placing Biblical texts alongside words by the Elizabethan diplomat, explorer and spy-master Sir Francis Walsingham - a former student at King's College.

Guy Johnston (cello)
Daniel Hyde (organ)
主播大秀 Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

Francis Poulenc: Quatre motets pour un temps de penitence
Jehan Alain: Trois danses
Judith Bingham: See and keep silent (主播大秀 commission; world premiere).