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The BBC Singers is a professional British chamber choir, employed by the BBC.^[1]

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1924 establishments in the United Kingdom
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Musical groups established in 1924

A Boy Was Born

A Boy Was Born, Op. 3, is a choral composition by Benjamin Britten.

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Anna Lapwood

Anna Ruth Ella Lapwood (born 28 July 1995) is a British organist, choir director and television and radio presenter.

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Ariane et Barbe-bleue

Ariane et Barbe-bleue (Ariadne and Bluebeard) is an opera in three acts by Paul Dukas.

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Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer.

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Arthur Bliss

Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss (2 August 189127 March 1975) was an English composer and conductor.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Orchestras and Singers

BBC Orchestras and Singers refers collectively to a number of orchestras, choirs and other musical ensembles, maintained by the BBC. BBC Singers and BBC Orchestras and Singers are BBC music.

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BBC Philharmonic

The BBC Philharmonic is a national British broadcasting symphony orchestra and is one of five radio orchestras maintained by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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BBC Proms

The BBC Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. BBC Singers and BBC Radio 3 are classical music in the United Kingdom.

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BBC Symphony Orchestra

The BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO) is a British orchestra based in London.

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BBC Third Programme

The BBC Third Programme was a national radio station produced and broadcast from 1946 until 1967, when it was replaced by BBC Radio 3.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist.

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Bo Holten

Bo Holten (born 22 October 1948) is a Danish composer and conductor.

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Bob Chilcott

Robert Chilcott (born 9 April 1955) is a British choral composer, conductor, and singer, based in Oxfordshire, England.

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Brian Ferneyhough

Brian John Peter Ferneyhough (born 16 January 1943) is an English composer.

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Broadcasting House

Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC, in Portland Place and Langham Place, London.

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Bruno Walter

Bruno Walter (born Bruno Schlesinger, September 15, 1876February 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor, pianist, and composer.

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A chamber choir is a small or medium-sized choir of roughly 8 to 40 singers (occasionally called "chamber singers"), typically singing classical or religious music in a concert setting. BBC Singers and chamber choir are chamber choirs.

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City of London Sinfonia

City of London Sinfonia (CLS) is an English chamber orchestra based in London.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud (4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher.

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David Hill (choral director)

David Hill, (born on 13 May 1957 in Carlisle, Cumberland) is a choral conductor and organist.

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Death in Venice (opera)

Death in Venice, Op.

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Edmund Rubbra

Edmund Rubbra (23 May 190114 February 1986) was a British composer.

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Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire.

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Elizabeth Maconchy

Dame Elizabeth Violet Maconchy LeFanu (19 March 1907 – 11 November 1994) was an Irish-English composer.

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Figure humaine

Figure humaine (Human Figure), FP 120, by Francis Poulenc is a cantata for double mixed choir of 12 voices composed in 1943 on texts by Paul Éluard including "'Liberté".

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Francis Poulenc

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist.

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Frank Martin (composer)

Frank Martin (15 September 1890 – 21 November 1974) was a Swiss composer, who spent much of his life in the Netherlands.

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Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales

The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, started on Saturday 6 September 1997 at 9:08am in London, when the tenor bell of Westminster Abbey started tolling to signal the departure of the cortège from Kensington Palace.

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George Enescu

George Enescu (– 4 May 1955), known in France as Georges Enesco, was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, and teacher and is regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history.

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Gerald Finzi

Gerald Raphael Finzi (14 July 1901 – 27 September 1956) was a British composer.

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Gianandrea Noseda

Gianandrea Noseda (born 23 April 1964) is an Italian conductor.

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Gustav Holst

Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher.

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Harry Christophers

Richard Henry Tudor "Harry" Christophers CBE FRSCM (born 26 December 1953) is an English conductor.

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Herbert von Karajan

Herbert von Karajan (born Heribert Ritter von Karajan; 5 April 1908 – 16 July 1989) was an Austrian conductor.

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I Fagiolini

I Fagiolini is a British vocal ensemble specialising in early music and contemporary music. BBC Singers and i Fagiolini are British choirs.

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Iannis Xenakis

Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" ΚλέαρχουΞενάκης,; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer.

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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (– 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945).

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International Society for Contemporary Music

The International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) is a music organization that promotes contemporary classical music.

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James Dillon (composer)

James Dillon (born 29 October 1950) is a Scottish composer who is often regarded as belonging to the New Complexity school.

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Jiří Bělohlávek

Jiří Bělohlávek, (24 February 1946 – 31 May 2017) was a Czech conductor.

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John Barbirolli

Sir John Barbirolli (Giovanni Battista Barbirolli; 2 December 189929 July 1970) was a British conductor and cellist.

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John Casken

John Arthur Casken (born 15 July 1949) is an English composer.

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John Tavener

Sir John Kenneth Tavener (28 January 1944 – 12 November 2013) was an English composer, known for his extensive output of choral religious works.

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JSTOR

JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources founded in 1994.

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Judith Bingham

Judith Bingham (born 21 June 1952) is an English composer and mezzo-soprano singer.

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Judith Weir

Dame Judith Weir (born 11 May 1954) is a British composer serving as Master of the King's Music.

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Karol Szymanowski

Karol Maciej Szymanowski (3 October 188229 March 1937) was a Polish composer and pianist.

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Leoš Janáček

Leoš Janáček (3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, music theorist, folklorist, publicist, and teacher.

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Leon Botstein

Leon Botstein (born December 14, 1946, in Zürich, Switzerland) is a Swiss-born American conductor, educator, and scholar serving as the President of Bard College.

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Leslie Woodgate

Hubert Leslie Woodgate (15 April 190018 May 1961) was an English choral conductor, composer, and writer of books on choral music.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Maida Vale Studios

Maida Vale Studios is a complex of seven BBC sound studios, of which five are in regular use, in Delaware Road, Maida Vale, west London.

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Martyn Brabbins

Martyn Charles Brabbins (born 13 August 1959) is a British conductor.

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Michael Berkeley

Michael Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Baron Berkeley of Knighton, (born 29 May 1948) is an English composer, broadcaster on music and member of the House of Lords.

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Michael Tippett

Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War.

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Nicola LeFanu

Nicola Frances LeFanu (born 28 April 1947) is a British composer, academic, lecturer and director.

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Odaline de la Martinez

Odaline de la Martinez (born 31 October 1949) is a Cuban-American composer and conductor, currently residing in the UK.

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Otto Klemperer

Otto Nossan Klemperer (14 May 18856 July 1973) was a German conductor and composer, originally based in Germany, and then the United States, Hungary and finally, Great Britain.

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Paul Dukas

Paul Abraham Dukas (or; 1 October 1865 – 17 May 1935) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher.

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Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith (16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German and American composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor.

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Peter Gellhorn

Peter Gellhorn (born Hans Fritz Gellhorn, October 24, 1912 – February 13, 2004) was a German conductor, composer, pianist, and teacher.

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Peter Maxwell Davies

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music.

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Peter Pears

Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears (22 June 19103 April 1986) was an English tenor.

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Peter Phillips (conductor)

Peter Phillips (born 15 October 1953) is a British choral conductor and musicologist.

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Pierre Boulez

Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (26 March 19255 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions.

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Richard Hickox

Richard Sidney Hickox (5 March 1948 – 23 November 2008) was an English conductor of choral, orchestral and operatic music.

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Richard Rodney Bennett

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (29 March 193624 December 2012) was an English composer of film, TV and concert music, and also a jazz pianist and occasional vocalist.

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Robert Saxton

Robert Saxton (born 8 October 1953 in London) is a British composer.

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Roderick Williams

Roderick Gregory Coleman Williams OBE (born 1965) is a British baritone and composer.

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Rutland Boughton

Rutland Boughton (23 January 187825 January 1960) was an English composer who became well known in the early 20th century as a composer of opera and choral music.

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Sarah Connolly

Dame Sarah Patricia Connolly (born 13 June 1963) is an English mezzo-soprano.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor.

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Smith Square Hall

Smith Square Hall (formerly St John's Smith Square) is a concert hall in the centre of Smith Square, Westminster, London.

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Sofi Jeannin

Sofi Jeannin (born 6 September 1976) is a Swedish choral conductor and mezzo-soprano.

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St Giles-without-Cripplegate

St Giles-without-Cripplegate is an Anglican church in the City of London, located on Fore Street within the modern Barbican complex.

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St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge

St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, is an English Grade II* listed Anglican church of the Anglo-Catholic tradition located at 32a Wilton Place in Knightsbridge, London.

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Stanford Robinson

Stanford Robinson OBE (5 July 190425 October 1984) was an English conductor and composer, known for his work with the BBC.

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Stephen Cleobury

Sir Stephen John Cleobury (31 December 1948 – 22 November 2019) BBC 23 November 2019 was an English organist and music director.

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The Daily Service

The Daily Service is a short Christian service broadcast every weekday morning between 09:45 and 10:00 on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

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The Musical Times

The Musical Times is an academic journal of classical music edited and produced in the United Kingdom and the oldest such journal still being published in the country.

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The Tallis Scholars

The Tallis Scholars is a British professional early music vocal ensemble established in 1973. BBC Singers and The Tallis Scholars are British choirs and chamber choirs.

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Thea Musgrave

Thea Musgrave CBE (born 27 May 1928) is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music.

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Thomas Beecham

Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, CH (29 April 18798 March 1961) was an English conductor and impresario best known for his association with the London Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic orchestras.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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