Christmas ‘Composer of the Week’ – JCS sings RVW!
What a Joyful way to close ‘Composer of the Week’ on BBC Radio 3 as we head into the Christmas holiday!
JCS features on no less than three of the selected tracks in today’s (22nd December) episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001tb15 where presenter Kate Molleson explores Ralph Vaughan Williams’s experiences of Christmas alongside some of his best loved pieces, especially the music he wrote to celebrate the festive period.
The broadcast opens and closes with extracts from our recording for Chandos Records of ‘The First Nowell’ – RVW’s final work – with Sarah Fox, soprano, Roderick Williams, baritone and the City of London Sinfonia under the late Richard Hickox.
Also featured is ‘Epithalamion (the bridal day) – Procession of the bride’ which we recorded with the Britten Sinfonia under Alan Tongue for Albion Records, the label of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society.
You can hear this episode and the previous four via the BBC Radio 3 webpage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnxf/episodes/player
Our thanks to Kate Molleson, to producer Sam Phillips for BBC Audio Wales and West and to BBC Radio 3 for a great series …
…and to all our listeners and supporters – have yourselves a Joyful Christmas!