Performance on 3 - 02/07/2008

Suzy Klein introduces a concert performed in Blythburgh Church as part of the 2008 Aldeburgh Festival, featuring the BBC Singers conducted by David Hill. Their programme celebrates spiritual and earthly love with works from Schumann, Britten and Messiaen to Ruth Crawford and the festival's featured composer Gyorgy Kurtag. Schumann: Vier doppelchorige Gesange, Op 141 Ruth Crawford: Three Chants Britten: Sacred and Profane Kurtag: Eight Choruses Mesiaen: Cinq rechants.