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Another chance to hear Sir Andrew Davis with the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Chorus and Dame Sarah Connolly. Plus Vaughan Williams’s Tallis Fantasia and Hugh Wood’s Comus.

Presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Martin Handley

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Hugh Wood: Scenes from Comus, Op.6 +

Interval - Proms Plus Talk: Musicologist Kate Kennedy discusses aspects of Elgar's The Music Makers

Elgar: The Music Makers, Op.69*

Stacey Tappan (soprano) +
Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)*
Anthony Gregory (tenor) +
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Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

Sir Andrew Davis conducts the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly in Elgar’s last great choral work.

The Music Makers is the musical culmination of a career, drawing together quotations from many of the composer’s best-loved pieces, including the ‘Enigma’ Variations and Sea Pictures, and weaving them into a musical manifesto for the power of art.

The concert also includes Vaughan Williams’s luminous Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for double string orchestra and Hugh Wood’s lyrical setting of scenes from Milton’s pastoral masque Comus.