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First Night of the Proms

Live at the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra and Singers, conductor Dalia Stasevska and organist Daniel Hyde play Vaughan Williams, Poulenc and Sibelius's Second Symphony.

Live at the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ SO and Singers, conductor Dalia Stasevska and organist Daniel Hyde play Vaughan Williams, Poulenc and Sibelius's Second Symphony.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presenter by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny.

Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
Poulenc: Organ Concerto

c.8.10pm
INTERVAL: Georgia and Petroc look ahead to six weeks of exciting live music-making at the Proms. They are joined by a much-loved and familiar face to the Proms, Tasmin Little, who hung up her violin last year. She chats to Georgia and Petroc about her highlights of the up-coming season.

c.8.35pm
MacMillan: When Soft Voices Die
(³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ co-commission with Help Musicians: world premiere)
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D major

Elizabeth Llewellyn, soprano
Jess Dandy, contralto
Allan Clayton, tenor
Michael Mofidian, bass-baritone
Daniel Hyde, organ
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Singers
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska, conductor

Dalia Stasevska leads a First Night featuring Vaughan Williams’s ravishing Serenade to Music – written to celebrate Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood’s 50 years on the podium and premiered by him at his jubilee concert in the Royal Albert Hall in 1938. Sir James MacMillan offers a new companion piece to the Serenade and Poulenc’s Organ Concerto is a piquant foil, showcasing the instrument in a vivid play of light and shade.

2 hours, 29 minutes

Last on

Fri 30 Jul 2021 19:30

Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Serenade to Music

    Choir: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Singers. Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Organ Concerto

    Performer: Daniel Hyde. Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
  • James McMillan

    When Soft Voices Die

    Performer: Elizabeth Llewellyn. Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: Dalia Stasevska.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 2

    Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
  • Cole Porter

    Love for Sale

    Singer: Ella Fitzgerald. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Buddy Bregman.
    • Verve.
  • Frank Loesser

    Fugue for Tinhorns from Guys and Dolls

    Singer: Frank Loesser. Singer: Sue Bennett. Singer: Milton DeLugg.
    • An Evening with Frank Loesser.
    • DRG.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Fri 30 Jul 2021 19:30

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