Prom 42: Lest We Forget

17 Aug 2014, Royal Albert Hall

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麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the Proms Prom 42: Lest We Forget

Prom 42: Lest We Forget

19:30 Sun 17 Aug 2014 Royal Albert Hall

Andrew Manze conducts this Prom to commemorate the First World War.

Programme

- - Rudi Stephan
  - Music for Orchestra (1912)
- - Frederick Septimus Kelly
  - Elegy for strings, in memoriam Rupert Brooke
- - George Butterworth
  - Six Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad'orch. P. Brookes
- - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  - Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3)

Performers

麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Allan Clayton
tenor
tenor
Roderick Williams
baritone
baritone
Andrew Manze
conductor
conductor

Composers

Concert Information

Butterworth鈥檚 A Shropshire Lad reflects a world on the brink of collapse while Vaughan Williams鈥檚 Pastoral Symphony is a vision of war-ravaged France. Like Butterworth, both Rudi Stephan and Frederick Kelly were killed in the First World War; the latter鈥檚 exquisite Elegy for strings was performed at his own memorial concert. Stephan鈥檚 Music for Orchestra (1912) finds a desperate intensity in its Expressionist colours.

Image 漏 Pietro Spagnoli