In 1944, Ealing Studios started to plan a film based on Robert Falcon Scott鈥檚 ill-fated attempt to reach the South Pole. The team was unanimous in its choice of a composer. 鈥楨veryone agreed that if Vaughan Williams could be interested, he was the one man in the world to write the score,鈥� recalled the studio鈥檚 director of music, Ernest Irving.

The score Vaughan Williams delivered is now recognized as one of the most outstanding works of its kind, its distinctive sound world of tremolo strings and wordless soprano voice conjuring up the unworldly conditions Scott faced and eventually making their way into the composer鈥檚 own Sinfonia Antarctica. Marking 150 years since the composer鈥檚 birth, Martyn Brabbins conducts Vaughan Williams鈥檚 extraordinary cinematic masterpiece live to a restored version of Charles Frend鈥檚 Scott of the Antarctic.

Presented by the 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra in association with Big Screen Live and StudioCanal.