The Glasshouse International Centre for Music: The ConcourseSt Mary's Square Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, North-East, NE8 2JR, United Kingdom
Festival: BBC Proms
Dates/times in London time zone
| Saturday 25 July 2026 | 16:00 |
Programme
Performers
| Jess Gillam | Saxophone |
| BBC Singers | |
| Sofi Jeannin | Conductor |
| Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia | |
| Timothy Burke | Choirmaster / chorus director |
| Voices of the River's Edge | |
| Simon Davies-Fidler | Choirmaster / chorus director |
A mini choral convention, shining a spotlight on voices from the North East as well as on the BBC Singers. The event includes a selection from Parry’s set of motets written during the First World War, as well as Tavener’s heart-rending memorial for a family friend who died tragically young in a cycling accident.
There will be two intervals
Further works to be announced
Recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3
