Dear BDCS

Here is our first attempt at a video substitute for rehearsals. I hope you enjoy it. Start by clicking on Video 1 and then as you work through you will be told when to click on the subsequent links. Some of the YouTube links start with adverts, these will either play out, or you can click on the ‘skip advert’ button. Each link opens a new window, so by closing the window when the video ends you come back to BBC Bingham.

1. Video 1_Guy: Introductions (8:02)
2. Video 2_Ca’ the Yowes (arr. R.Vaughan Williams) (4.27)
3. Video 3_Guy (1:28)
4. Video 4_Cerys Matthews – ‘Sospan Fach’ (2.09)
5. Video 5_Guy (0.52)
6. Video 6_ Voces8, Sibeal -Traditional: Carrickfergus (Arr.Pacey) (4.29)
7. Video 7_Guy: ‘The Final Choice’ (0.32)
8. Video 8_Steeleye Span-All Around My Hat (Live Cropredy) (4.22)
9. Video 9_Guy: ‘So that’s the plan.’ (1:16)
10. Sound recording_of Judy Brown: Robert Burns: My luve is like a red red rose. (2.39)
11. Sound recording_ of Judy Brown: Tchaikovsky Queen of Spades – Prodrugi Milye (4.30)
12. Video 12_Guy: ‘So I hope you found that interesting’ (0.23)

Extra video you might like to watch:

Dives and Lazarus – Maddy Prior

Vaughan Williams Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus (with score)

Barbara Dickson she Moved through the Fair

Extra performance of Sopan Fach

Guy’s email for future suggestions – guyscottturner@gmail.com

This week Guy Turner takes us on a musical journey with the organist, teacher, conductor, and prolific composer, Eric Thiman (1900 – 1975). As The Thiman Collection’s Archivist, and previously singer in one of Thiman’s Choral Societies, Guy provides a fascinating insight into Thiman, interspersed with recordings of his works, some of which BDCS have performed.

Click on this link to here the episode

This week’s BBC Bingham is based on a talk which I gave at a conference for GCSE and A level musicians earler this year. It also relates to next week’s programme, which will be introducing you to the Folksong Sequence commission which I have now completed and which we will be doing at the Jubilee Prom next year. The talk was originally designed for people who were going to be composing their own variations, but I hope it will give plenty of insights to people who are only planning to perform and listen to music.

Click on the text ‘Variations_1’ below, and then the sound file that follows, and then ‘Variations 2&3’ and so on………

Variations_1

Variations_2&3

Variations_4&5

Variations_6

Variations_7

Variations_8

Variations_9

Clapping Music

List of additional links

Paganini Caprice No 24  This is a lockdown video made just the day before I updated the talk for BDCS – 12 famous violinists taking turns. Put together by Nicola Benedetti.

Ives Variation on America

Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Lloyd Webber Variations  or you may prefer the orchestral version

As we approach what would have been the end of our singing season for 2019/2020, to give the production team a chance of a break BBC Bingham will change its broadcast frequency from weekly to fortnightly. The next episode of BBC Bingham (episode fifteen) will be aired on July 8^th with another Desert Island Discs, so tune in to see which castaway is Guy Turner’s guest that week.

The following broadcast (July 22^nd) will be a special episode comprising our annual newsletter, which will contain important information about the forthcoming season 2020/2021, and also our Jubilee Year 2021/2022, so make sure you tune in for that.

Today’s episode follows on from the variations episode last week and is an introduction to the Folk Song Sequence Guy has written for us to perform at our Jubilee Prom Concert. Click on the ‘Folk Song Sequence’ below, and follow the individual scores alongside.

Folk Song Sequence

Scores:

Bruton song – Full Score

Laudibus in Sanctis

Ca’ the Yowes

Sospan Fach

Carrickfergus

All around my hat

BDCS is about to launch its innovative Distance Learning Project, an initiative centred around the Folk Song Sequence composed by Guy Turner and commissioned for our Jubilee Year celebrations in 2021-22. Full details of this and of the Society’s preparations for the Jubilee are included in the 2020 Newsletter.

Peter Iley (Tenor) talks about being a choral singer for seventy years, having sung in at least 18 choirs.