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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eighth Season - Prom 69A: Late Night Prom - The BBC Singers and Sofi Jeannin
Performance Date8 September 2023
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time22:15
Main PerformersSoumik Datta - sarod,
Aref Durvesh - tabla,
Prathap Ramachandra - Mridangam,
Glen Scott - electronics producer,
Camilo Tirado - Sound and Effects
ChoirsBBC Singers
ConductorsSofi Jeannin
Set List'SEEN', J Marsh,
'Cantique des Catntiques', J-Y Daniel-Lesur,
'Awaaz', S Datta
Performance NotesTwo musical explorations of identity frame this special late-night performance, both of them premiered last year by the BBC Singers.

With the added layering of live electronics, Joanna Marsh’s SEEN highlights marginalised voices, especially those of women in ancient Greek theatre, whose stories were mostly told by men. Soumik Datta’s Awaaz (‘voice’ in Urdu and Hindi) was written to mark the 75th anniversary of Indian independence and partition and draws together Western and South Asian music in its celebration of the voice as the root of belonging.

In between comes one of the highlights of the 20th-century French choral repertoire, the Cantique des cantiques by Danel-Lesur – a longtime friend of Olivier Messiaen – settings from the biblical Songs of Songs that richly reflect the texts’ atmosphere of allusion and moods of love, desire and rapture.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2023/ ),
Programme (RAHE/1/2023/ ),
Digital Photographs
Ticket Prices£8-£
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Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work12976BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eightth Season71
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/21607Jeannin; Sofi (1976-); Swedish choral conductor and mezzo-soprano
DS/UK/958British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Singers; 1924-; British chamber choir
DS/UK/23448Datta; Soumik (1983); Bengali-born British Indian musician, composer
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