Performance on 3 - Schubert, Hensel, Tippett, Maconchy, Bingham - Part 1

Presented by Petroc Trelawny. From St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge in London. The BBC Singers conducted by Paul Brough, with the Michael Thompson Horn Quartet, perform music for horns and voices exploring music of the hunt, the forest, magic and the night. Their programme features Schubert's portayal of night time in a forest and Michael Tippett's Sonata, which conjures up the mysterious nocturnal world of his opera The Midsummer Marriage. These are followed by the first performance of a new work by Judith Bingham, which retells Ovid's story of the hunter changed into a stag as punishment for seeing a Goddess naked, and then torn to death by his own hounds. Scored for chorus and four horns (which are distributed around the performing space, drawing the audience into the drama of the hunt), the piece explores the complex psychology of this familiar story. Michael Thompson Horn Quartet BBC Singers Paul Brough (conductor) Schubert: Nachtgesang im Walde, D913 Fanny Hensel: Partsongs Michael Tippett: Sonata for four horns Elizabeth Maconchy: Nocturnal Judith Bingham: Actaeon - his strange new face (BBC Commission: world premiere).