Prom 41: Edward Gardner conducts Elgar & Vaughan Williams

12 Aug 2018, Royal Albert Hall

20:00 Sun 12 Aug 2018 Next Event

Proms 2018 Prom 41: Edward Gardner conducts Elgar & Vaughan Williams

20:00 Sun 12 Aug 2018 Royal Albert Hall

The conflict of war runs through this concert by Edward Gardner and the 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. Vaughan Williams鈥檚 beautiful cantata Dona nobis pacem and Lili Boulanger鈥檚 Pour les funerailles d鈥檜n soldat frame Elgar鈥檚 elegiac Cello Concerto.

Performances & Interviews

20:20

The story behind Vaughan Williams's Dona nobis pacem

Hannah Conway discusses VW's cantata Dona nobis pacem with Kate Kennedy and AC Grayling.

Aug '18麻豆社 Radio 3

20:19

The life and music of Lili Boulanger

Caroline Rae and Caroline Potter discuss the life and music of Lili Boulanger.

Aug '18麻豆社 Radio 3

03:05

Watch a special visualisation of Elgar's Cello Concerto from the 2016 Proms

See the cello in a new light as Sol Gabetta performs Elgar's Cello Concerto.

Jul '16麻豆社 Radio 3

Programme

- - Lili Boulanger
  - Pour les fun茅railles d'un soldat(9 mins)
- - Edward Elgar
  - Cello Concerto in E minor(28 mins)
- - interval
- - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  - Dona nobis pacem(36 mins)

Performers

Sophie Bevan
soprano
soprano
Neal Davies
bass-baritone
bass-baritone
Alexandre Duhamel
baritone
baritone
Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras
cello
cello
麻豆社 Symphony Chorus
麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

War casts its long shadow over this Prom given by Edward Gardner and the 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra and Chorus 鈥� part of this season鈥檚 musical survey suggested by the centenary of the end of the First World War.

A precursor to Britten鈥檚 War Requiem (see Prom 72), Vaughan Williams鈥檚 cantata Dona nobis pacem is a heartbreakingly beautiful exploration of the violence of war, its expansive lyricism a natural foil for the compressed drama of Lili Boulanger鈥檚 choral miniature Pour les fun茅railles d鈥檜n soldat.

Elgar鈥檚 much-loved Cello Concerto, composed in the wake of the conflict, completes this emotive concert, with French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras as soloist.

Broadcast on 麻豆社 Four on Sunday 2 September

Image: Sophie Bevan 漏 Sussie-Ahlburg