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BBC Big Band Gould Piano Trio with Mark Simpson with Claire Martin OBE 7.30pm / Tickets £15.00 (or £40.00 for all three events) The Swing Legends and Big Band Divas Claire Martin OBE: Since winning the first 7.30pm / Tickets £15.00 “Our finest jazz singer.” ‘Pure Gould’ Strad Magazine prize at both the Premio The Sunday Times Vittorio Gui in Florence and (or £40.00 for all three events) the inaugural Melbourne Chamber Music Competition, “Technically the singing is impeccable without being at all Join the internationally acclaimed BBC Big Band, conductor Barry Forgie and award-winning the Gould Piano Trio is effortful or studied…Huge credit to Nigel Short. Of this considered one of the vocalist and BBC radio presenter, Claire Martin OBE, for a unique celebration of the programme’s type, I can’t envisage hearing anything better.” greatest Big Bands and Jazz Divas of the twentieth century. finest of its kind performing BBC Music Magazine Photo: Sim Canetty-Clarke Through a diverse repertoire arranged and curated by the BBC Big Band and Claire Martin, today. Their widely diverse the concert celebrates the music of the twentieth century’s most iconic bands, composers repertoire displays a and vocalists, whose legacy and influence defined a classic era of music. strong stylistic conviction appreciated by audiences and Thursday 26 April 2018 Awards, securing the accolade of Best This stellar evening features music by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Artie Shaw, critics alike. Concerts at major Choral Performance. The following year Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and their contemporaries. You will also be treated to venues such as Wigmore and the choir’s recording of Fauré’s Requiem a sparkling selection of vocal numbers made famous by the most iconic Big Band Divas Carnegie Halls, and tours of with the London Symphony Orchestra was of the era, including Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee and, of course, in the centenary year of her Tenebrae North and South America, nominated for the Gramophone Awards, birth, Ella Fitzgerald. having been described as “the very best Europe and the Far East, have A Concert of Remembrance An unmissable evening of world-class music celebrating the ‘Swing Legends and introduced them to a wide Fauré Requiem on disc” and “the English Big Band Divas’! and varied public. choral tradition at its zenith” (Richard Morrisson, Chief Music Critic, The Times). Their discography not only includes the renowned masterpieces of the repertoire but also 7.30pm / Tickets £15.00 In 2014, the choir’s recording of Russian many hidden gems: trio cycles by Brahms, Hummel and Dvorak have been complemented (or £40.00 for all three events) Orthodox music was launched on its by the late romantic works of Stanford, Ireland and Bax, many of which are in world own label, Bene Arte, receiving glowing premiere recordings. This year sees the release of Saint-Saens’ Trios, the Piano Quartets reviews and reaching number 1 in the UK of Brahms, and his friend, Kirchner’s transcriptions of the master’s String Sextets for Described as ‘phenomenal’ (The Times) Specialist Classical Chart. In 2016 Tenebrae piano trio - another exciting rarity. and ‘devastatingly beautiful’ (Gramophone Magazine), award-winning choir Tenebrae, received its second BBC Music Magazine First-hand experience working with contemporary composers has Mark Simpson under the direction of Nigel Short, is one Award for a recording of Brahms and led to the commissioning of many new works. They celebrate their of the world’s leading vocal ensembles Bruckner motets. 25th anniversary year with performances of a new commission renowned for its passion and precision. ‘Passion and Precision’ are Tenebrae’s core from British composer Mark Simpson, supported through Beyond values. Through its continued dedication Borders and the PRS for Music Foundation. Simpson will also join Tenebrae’s ever-increasing discography has to performance of the highest quality, the trio for a performance of one of the most remarkable works brought about collaborations with Signum, Tenebrae’s vision is to deliver dramatic to come out of World War II: Messiaen’s ‘Quartet for the End of Decca Classics, Deutsche Grammophon, programming, flawless performances Time’. Composed whilst Messiaen was a French prisoner of war, his EMI Classics, LSO Live, and Warner Classics. “World-class musicians … In 2012 Tenebrae were the first-ever and unforgettable experiences, allowing a brilliant musical force” Quartet, a highly emotionally engaging, enduring and improbable ensemble to be multi-nominated in the audiences around the world to be moved by The Telegraph masterpiece, seems to touch the far edges of human experience. same category for the BBC Music Magazine the power and intimacy of the human voice.