BBC Radio 3 singing live iPlayer links

My BBC Radio 3 singing (even typing these words makes me laugh as I know several of my old singing teachers will be rising from the grave yelling ‘No! Don’t let Marysia near classical music, she does not have enough respect!!)

I sing at the Royal Festival Hall as a soprano one on an as required basis. I have sang in about 18 different languages now for them and many different styles.

My favourite bit was the gorgeous world premiere of Neil Hannon’s from the Divine Comedy’s ‘To Our Fathers In Distress” at the Royal Festival Hall this weekend (Sat 22nd March 2014)
Link to BBC Iplayer It starts from 1hr 17 min onwards in programme (we sang hymns and stuff earlier!!) its lovely stuff and singing with the BBC String Orchestra was amazing, plus earlier in the show there was an amazing interview with the incredible and lovely Neil Hannon, Rebecca Miller stylishly and brilliantly conducted and I have to thank Lea Cornthwaite for being such a fun Chorus master plus Holly for organising us all so well.

Also on this link Neil hannon’s wonderful rendition ‘Our lord and father of mankind’ is 27 minutes in and we sang two hymns as well.
11min 22 seconds in and also 35.08 min in.
For more details on Neil’s wonderful work see my post here

Picture of the BBC Maida Vale Studio One, about to rehearse with the BBC String Orchestra

I was also asked to sing in a very small choir on Sunday by Andrea Brown  for the BBC Radio 3 programme The Choir. Radio 3 have a temporary studio set up at the Southbank so we sang in the cafe whilst being broadcast live the first two movements of Durufle’s Requiem
Sunday The Choir Radio 3 – 06.00 to 13 min 13 secs.
Link to The Choir BBC iplayer

This is ahead of us performing some Taverner and the full Requiem at the Royal Festival Hall on April 6th 2014 –