Performance on 3 - Perth Festival 2010 - Part 1

Presented by Mary Ann Kennedy In this live broadcast 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. From the 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. Completing the programme, the UK premiere of a piece by the BBC Singers' Associate Composer Gabriel Jackson - a seascape setting words by Estonian poet Doris Kareva, 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. Thea Musgrave: Rorate coeli Robert Johnson: Gaude Maria virgo Robert Carver: Agnus Dei Mass Fera pessima Peter Maxwell Davies: Sea Runes Granville Bantock: 3 Hebridean Songs (Sea Sorrow; Song to the seals; Milking Song) Gabriel Jackson: A ship with unfurled sails (UK premiere) BBC Singers David Hill (conductor).