Prom 14: Holst 鈥� The Planets

25 Jul 2017, Royal Albert Hall

18:30 Tue 25 Jul 2017 Next Event

Proms 2017 Prom 14: Holst 鈥� The Planets

18:30 Tue 25 Jul 2017 Royal Albert Hall

John Wilson directs the 成人快手 SSO in this all-English programme. Holst鈥檚 vividly atmospheric The Planets is set against the mellow loveliness of Vaughan Williams鈥檚 Symphony No. 9 鈥� the last that the composer would write.

Programme

- - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  - Symphony No. 9 in E minor(34 mins)
- - interval
- - Gustav Holst
  - The Planets(50 mins)

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成人快手 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson
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conductor
CBSO Youth Chorus (female voices)

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Proms favourite John Wilson 鈥� who returns later this season with his John Wilson Orchestra (Proms 34 & 35) 鈥� tonight makes his first appearance at the Proms as the 成人快手 Scottish Symphony Orchestra鈥檚 new Associate Guest Conductor.

Here he swaps Hollywood and Broadway classics for another of his personal passions: the great British symphonic classics. Holst鈥檚 galactic suite conjures up the epic scope of a movie blockbuster in luminous music of infinite vistas, while Vaughan Williams鈥檚 enigmatic final symphony also revels in an augmented sound-world: it鈥檚 a piece Wilson sees as a suitably radical counterpart to The Planets.

Tickets for this concert are now very limited. However tickets are still available for his performances of Rogers & Hammerstein鈥檚 Oklahoma! with the John Wilson Orchestra on Friday 11 August (Proms 34 and 35). See below for more details.

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