‘Which choir is that? They are fantastic!’ was my instant reaction to the performances of the spirituals from A Child of our Time slotted into John Bridcut’s 2023 BBC TV documentary Michael Tippett: The Shadow and the Light. I assumed it was one of the big symphonic choruses, but the singers didn’t look familiar from BBC Proms appearances. Performing from memory, they had a wonderfully flexible sound and were responding with precision to the direction of the conductor; and they had an impressively wide age range.
The orchestra turned out to be the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Harish Shankar, and the choir that had impressed me so much was Glasgow-based Bearsden Choir, impeccably drilled for their contributions to the documentary by their musical director since 2014, Andrew Nunn.
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