‘The Centenary of the Battle of the Somme: The Vigil‘ will be broadcast on BBC Two from 7:30-9:30pm on Thursday 30th June. ‘The Centenary of the Battle of the Somme: Thiepval‘ will be broadcast on BBC One from 9:15am-12:15pm on Friday 1st July.
I am tremendously honoured to have been asked to sing at the commemorative events to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, at the Thiepval Memorial in France. There will be a military vigil starting at 21:15 on 30th June 2016 where I will be singing ‘The Lads in their Hundreds’ (Butterworth) unaccompanied, and on 1st July 2016 I will sing ‘Abide With Me’ (Monk) for the main National Commemorative Event. There will be worldwide coverage provided by the BBC and both events will be broadcast live on BBC Two. For more details please see this article on The...
This Sunday I will be performing in a concert dedicated to HM Queen Elizabeth II in the week of her 90th birthday with Ensemble Marsyas at the Wigmore Hall in London, in a programme about Irish culture in Britain. More information can be found on the Wigmore Hall’s website here including a link to buy tickets online. There is a pre-concert talk at 3pm before the performance which starts at 4pm. There is also an interesting article about one of the pieces here.
“Tenor Samuel Boden played the comically poignant role of the strangled, roasted swan to perfection.” Nottingham Post, 14 March 2016
“A strong quartet of soloists move through the seasons… Samuel Bodensensuous, Brittenish summer.“Gramophone, February 2016
Sir Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Berlioz’s large-scale setting of Shakespeare’s tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. Performed and recorded at the Barbican on 22nd January 2016. Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette Michèle Losier (mezzo-soprano) Samuel Boden (tenor) David Soar (bass) BBC Symphony Orchestra BBC Symphony Chorus Sir Andrew Davis (conductor) Available online until 25th February 2016: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06xy9w4
