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Proms 2024
13 Aug 2024, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2024 Prom 33: Titans of British Music

Prom 33
Prom 33: Titans of British Music
19:30 Tue 13 Aug 2024 Royal Albert Hall
The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra present an all-British Prom, with Elgar’s ‘Cockaigne’ overture, Holst’s Hammersmith and Vaughan Williams’s A London Symphony featuring alongside a selection of Stanford’s songs performed by baritone Christopher Maltman
The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra present an all-British Prom, with Elgar’s ‘Cockaigne’ overture, Holst’s Hammersmith and Vaughan Williams’s A London Symphony featuring alongside a selection of Stanford’s songs performed by baritone Christopher Maltman

Programme

      • Overture ‘Cockaigne (In London Town)’(13 mins)
      • Hammersmith(15 mins)
      • Songs of Faith – ‘To the Soul’(4 mins)
      • Stanford Songs of Faith – ‘Tears’(3 mins)
      • Stanford Songs of Faith – ‘Joy, shipmate, joy!’(4 mins)
      • ‘The Fairy Lough’(4 mins)
        • interval
        • A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2)(57 mins)

    Performers

    About This Event

    From Westminster Bridge and the bells of Big Ben to Bloomsbury Square, in his A London Symphony Vaughan Williams depicts the English capital, where horses still trotted through the streets and the countryside could be glimpsed from Marble Arch. Elgar’s ‘stout and steaky’ picture-postcard scenes of London life join anniversary composer Holst’s Hammersmith, commissioned for the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Military Band, in saluting the city. Vaughan Williams’s teacher Stanford (who died 100 years ago) completes the programme, with a selection of reflective songs performed by leading British baritone Christopher Maltman.

    Broadcast live on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3

    Image: Christopher Maltman © Chris Singer

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    Proms 2024