The Angry Planet by BBC Singers / The Bach Choir / London Youth Choir

Bob Chilcott

BBC Singers / The Bach Choir / London Youth Choir

The Angry Planet

Price: € 25.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212042229
Catnr: SIGCD 422
Release date: 03 July 2015
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Label
Signum Classics

UPC
0635212042229

Catalogue number
SIGCD 422

Release date
03 July 2015

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About the album

The three works on this 2CD set further confirm Bob Chilcott’s status as one of the world’s most popular active choral composers. Five Days That Changed The World creates a strikingly vivid and personal account of each of five protagonist's experiences of a historical event. The Miracle of the Spring celebrates the pursuit, and eventual discovery, of water. The Angry Planet (2012) combines the precision and skill of the BBC Singers and The Bach Choir with the exuberance of a host of young persons and Children’s choirs, including The Young Singers, London Youth Choir and Finchley Children’s Music Group.

Een dubbelalbum met werken van een hedendaagse held van de Britse koormuziek
Bob Chilcott componeerde The Angry Planet in opdracht voor The Bach Choir in 2011. De tekst voor dit werk is geschreven door de dichter Charles Bennett. Op het thema ‘de kwetsbaarheid van de wereld en de behoefte om voor het milieu te zorgen’ ontwikkelde hij het scenario van een bos in de nacht. Door de loop van het werk heen wordt het concept van verlies en uiteenval weergegeven door de stemmen van met uitsterven bedreigde dieren. Het werk wordt afgerond met een sfeer van voorzichtig optimisme, als de jonge zangers als een zwerm vogels de vraag “Kunnen we leren hoe we met deze wereld kunnen leven?” beantwoorden met “Misschien.”

Chilcott kreeg de opdracht om een werk met een verenigend thema te componeren, dat tijdens het slotconcert van het Worcester International Fesitval for Young Singers in 2013 uitgevoerd kon worden door 400 zangers uit elf verschillende landen. Chilcott en Bennett bedachten vijf historische gebeurtenissen met een verenigend effect op de wereld, die de basis vormden voor de gedichten waarop Five Days that Changed the World gebaseerd zou worden.

Chilcott componeerde The Miracle of Spring in 2013 voor het koor van Magdalen College School in Oxford. Bennett en hij besloten een werk over water te schrijven, in het bijzonder over het tekort aan water. De vrij eenvoudige slagwerkpartijen beelden het stromen van water af door middel van een mark tree en klokkenspel, en de droogheid van de grond wordt verklankt door een paar van spleettrommels.

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BBC Singers

BBC Singers Chief Conductor David Hill Principal Guest Conductors Paul Brough and Bob Chilcott Conductor Laureate Stephen Cleobury Associate Composer Judith Weir The BBC Singers hold a unique position in British musical life. Performing everything from Byrd to Birtwistle, Tallis to Takemitsu, their versatility is second to none. The choir’s unrivalled expertise in performing the best of contemporary music has brought about creative relationships with some of the most important composers and conductors of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Poulenc, Britten, Judith Bingham and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Following a successful 90th anniversary season, the BBC Singers’ 2015-16 season is as thrilling and diverse as ever. A third season of concerts in London’s newest concert venue, Milton Court Concert Hall, includes Monteverdi’s Vespers with I...

BBC Singers Chief Conductor David Hill Principal Guest Conductors Paul Brough and Bob Chilcott Conductor Laureate Stephen Cleobury Associate Composer Judith Weir The BBC Singers hold a unique position in British musical life. Performing everything from Byrd to Birtwistle, Tallis to Takemitsu, their versatility is second to none. The choir’s unrivalled expertise in performing the best of contemporary music has brought about creative relationships with some of the most important composers and conductors of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Poulenc, Britten, Judith Bingham and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
Following a successful 90th anniversary season, the BBC Singers’ 2015-16 season is as thrilling and diverse as ever. A third season of concerts in London’s newest concert venue, Milton Court Concert Hall, includes Monteverdi’s Vespers with I Fagiolini, Handel’s Saul with a host of first-rate soloists, a magical presentation of Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales led by Chief Conductor David Hill and a poignant concert remembering the battle of the Somme. The Singers at Six series of early-evening concerts in the atmospheric surroundings St Giles’ Cripplegate continues with American Songs and music by Elgar, Judith Bingham and James MacMillan.
Based at the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios, the BBC Singers also give free concerts at St Paul’s Knightsbridge, as well as appearing at major festivals across the UK and beyond.
This world-class ensemble is committed to sharing its enthusiasm and creative expertise through its nationwide outreach programme. This includes frequent collaborations with schoolchildren, youth choirs and the amateur choral community, as well as with the professional composers, singers and conductors of tomorrow.

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The Bach Choir

The Young Singers

London Youth Choir

Finchley Children’s Music Group

David Hill (conductor)

Composer(s)

Bob Chilcott

Described by the Observer newspaper as “a contemporary hero of British choral music”, Bob Chilcott has grown up immersed in the choral tradition of his country. He grew up as a chorister and choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, and after singing professionally in London and also as a member of the vocal group the King’s Singers for a number of years, he became a full-time composer in 1997. He has embraced his career with energy and commitment, not only producing a large catalogue of music for all types of choirs, but also working with singers and choirs in more than 30 countries.
It was perhaps through his many works for young singers that he first came to prominence as a composer, prompting some large-scale performances of his pieces, particularly Can you hear me? in BC Place in Vancouver in 2001 with 2000 singers and at the Estonian Song Festival in 2004 with 7000 young singers. Thied to several other large-scale projects including notably The Angry Planet, written for David Hill and The Bach Choir for the 2012 BBC Proms, which was performed by The Bach Choir, The National Youth Choir, The BBC Singers and 200 primary school children from London.
He has written a number of substantial sacred works including Salisbury Vespers (2009), St John Passion (2013) for Wells Cathedral Choir, and his Requiem (2010) which has now been performed in over 16 countries. In 2013 he wrote The King shall rejoice for the service at Westminster Abbey to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
In June 2014 he began an 18-month term as composer-in-residence for the Washington DC-based choir Choralis as part of their 15th anniversary season celebrations. The season features a number of his works and concludes with the première of Gloria in December 2015.
Over the past 18 years Bob has worked with many thousands of singers in Britain through a continuing series of Singing Days throughout the country. Between 1997 and 2004 he was conductor of the choir of The Royal College of Music in London, and since 2002 he has been Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers.
His music has been recorded extensively and there are a number of albums dedicated to his music, including “Man I Sing” (2007), “Making Waves” (2008), “Requiem” (2012), “The Seeds of Stars” (2012), “Everyone Sang” (2013), “The Rose in the Middle of Winter” (2013), and “St John Passion” (2015). His music has been recorded by many leading British choirs and ensembles including The Sixteen, The Cambridge Singers, Tenebrae, The BBC Singers, The Choir of Wells Cathedral, The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, and The King’s Singers.

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