Performances of Ralph Vaughan Williams at BBC Proms
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- 20:15Royal Albert Hall
An all-British concert launches the 2018 season. Vaughan Williams atmospheric Whitman settings and Holst’s ever-popular 1918 suite The Planets sit alongside a new collaboration by Anna Meredith and 59 Productions.
An all-British concert launches the 2018 season. Vaughan Williams atmospheric Whitman settings and Holst’s ever-popular 1918 suite The Planets sit alongside a new collaboration by Anna Meredith and 59 Productions.
Programme
- Toward the Unknown Region(13 mins)
- The Planets(52 mins)
- interval
- Five Telegrams(22 mins)BBC co-commission with 14–18 NOW and Edinburgh International Festival: world premiere
Performers
- Sakari Oramoconductor
Fri 27 Jul 2018
- 19:00Royal Albert Hall
Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and Pastoral Symphony sit alongside music by Holst and Parry’s stirring Fifth Symphony in this centenary celebration of Hubert Parry – father of 20th-century English music. Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC NOW.
Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and Pastoral Symphony sit alongside music by Holst and Parry’s stirring Fifth Symphony in this centenary celebration of Hubert Parry – father of 20th-century English music. Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC NOW.
Programme
- Symphony No. 5 in B minor(27 mins)
- The Lark Ascending(15 mins)
- interval
- Hear my words, ye people(15 mins)
- Ode to Death(12 mins)
- Pastoral Symphony (No. 3)(35 mins)
Performers
- Tai Murrayviolin
- Francesca Chiejinasoprano
- Ashley Richesbass-baritone
- Martyn Brabbinsconductor
Tue 31 Jul 2018
- 19:00Royal Albert Hall
Symphonies by Haydn and Vaughan Williams offer two contrasting musical portraits of London. Boisterous urban energy pulses through Haydn’s final Symphony, No. 104, while Vaughan Williams shows us the city in more contemplative mood.
Symphonies by Haydn and Vaughan Williams offer two contrasting musical portraits of London. Boisterous urban energy pulses through Haydn’s final Symphony, No. 104, while Vaughan Williams shows us the city in more contemplative mood.
Programme
- Symphony No. 104 in D major, 'London'(29 mins)
- interval
- A London Symphony (Symphony No 2)(50 mins)
Performers
- Andrew Manzeconductor
Composers
Part ofProms 2018
Mon 6 Aug 2018
- 13:00Cadogan Hall
Lullabies, dreams and sleep are themes that drift through this night-inspired concert of English song. Dame Sarah Connolly makes her Proms recital debut with music by Vaughan Williams and Howells as well as a world premiere by Benjamin Britten.
Lullabies, dreams and sleep are themes that drift through this night-inspired concert of English song. Dame Sarah Connolly makes her Proms recital debut with music by Vaughan Williams and Howells as well as a world premiere by Benjamin Britten.
Programme
- A Soft Day(2 mins)
- Weep you no more, sad fountains(3 mins)
- The House of Life – 'Love-Sight'(4 mins)
- Thou didst delight my eyes(2 mins)
- A Shropshire Lad – 'Into my heart an air that kills'(2 mins)
- Come to me in my dreams(4 mins)
- Goddess of Night(2 mins)
- Journey's End(4 mins)
- A Sweet Lullaby(5 mins)world premiere
- Somnus(2 mins)world premiere
- Journey's End(4 mins)
- A Charm of Lullabies(11 mins)
- Farewell(2 mins)world premiere
- Sleeplessness ... Sails(6 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
Performers
- Dame Sarah Connollymezzo-soprano
- Joseph Middletonpiano
Sun 12 Aug 2018
- 20:00Royal Albert Hall
The conflict of war runs through this concert by Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Vaughan Williams’s beautiful cantata Dona nobis pacem and Lili Boulanger’s Pour les funerailles d’un soldat frame Elgar’s elegiac Cello Concerto.
The conflict of war runs through this concert by Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Vaughan Williams’s beautiful cantata Dona nobis pacem and Lili Boulanger’s Pour les funerailles d’un soldat frame Elgar’s elegiac Cello Concerto.
Programme
- Pour les funérailles d'un soldat(9 mins)
- Cello Concerto in E minor(28 mins)
- interval
- Dona nobis pacem(36 mins)
Performers
- Sophie Bevansoprano
- Neal Daviesbass-baritone
- Alexandre Duhamelbaritone
- Jean‐Guihen Queyrascello
- Edward Gardnerconductor
Mon 20 Aug 2018
- 13:00Cadogan Hall
Endings – whether of a day, a relationship or a lifetime – are the theme of this choral recital by the BBC Singers. Parry’s Songs of Farewell and music by Holst, Vaughan Williams and Parry complement a new work by Laura Mvula.
Endings – whether of a day, a relationship or a lifetime – are the theme of this choral recital by the BBC Singers. Parry’s Songs of Farewell and music by Holst, Vaughan Williams and Parry complement a new work by Laura Mvula.
Programme
- Music, when soft voices die(3 mins)
- Rest(4 mins)
- Nunc dimittis(4 mins)
- Love Like A Lion(8 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- Songs of Farewell(32 mins)
Performers
- Sakari Oramoconductor
