BBC Radio 3’s Breakfast today announced the six carols that have been short-listed in the Radio 3 Christmas Carol Competition, a nation-wide challenge to listeners to compose a brand new Christmas carol set to the words of a poem by author Susan Hill.
The BBC Singers, directed by Chief Conductor David Hill, performed the six carols live on BBC Radio 3 Breakfast this morning. Listeners can now hear and download the carols in full, and vote for their favourite via the Radio 3 website. The carol with the largest number of votes will be performed again live on the Breakfast show on Tuesday 23 December, and played on Christmas day on BBC Radio 3.
The six shortlisted composers are: Jacqueline Burley, Mark Goggins, Ian Hope, Dan Miller, Ralph Warman and Andy Whitfield.
BBC Radio 3 received hundreds of entries to the competition, which were shortlisted by a panel including the Master of the Queen’s Music and Associate Composer with the BBC Singers, Judith Weir, and Chief Conductor of the BBC Singers, David Hill.
The six carols will be given their concert premiere by the BBC Singers at St Paul’s Knightsbridge, London, on Wednesday 17 December at 2pm, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. The BBC Singers, conducted by David Hill, will perform the brand new carols, alongside Tallis’ soaring seven-voice mass Missa puer natus est and the appealing carol sequence for chorus and organ, Ave Rex, by Mathias. The concert will be presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch for BBC Radio 3.
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