BBC Proms 2021 commission

Bernard Hughes’s BBC commission Birdchant is be premiered in the BBC Proms 2021. Written for the BBC Singers and their chief conductor Sofi Jeanin it will be heard at the Royal Albert Hall on 19 August, in a programme of new choral responses to older works. Birdchant takes as its starting point Clement Janequin’s Le Chant des Oyseaux and is programmed alongside new music by Nico Muhly and Shiva Feshareki.