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Proms 2018 Prom 17: Parry, Vaughan Williams & Holst

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Prom 17: Parry, Vaughan Williams & Holst
19:00 Fri 27 Jul 2018 Prom 17
Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and Pastoral Symphony sit alongside music by Holst and Parry’s stirring Fifth Symphony in this centenary celebration of Hubert Parry – father of 20th-century English music. Martyn Brabbins conducts the Â鶹Éç NOW.
Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and Pastoral Symphony sit alongside music by Holst and Parry’s stirring Fifth Symphony in this centenary celebration of Hubert Parry – father of 20th-century English music. Martyn Brabbins conducts the Â鶹Éç NOW.

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Sound of the summer - The Lark Ascending
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Sound of the summer - The Lark Ascending
Violinist Tai Murray depicts a skylark singing an impossibly beautiful song.
Aug '18Â鶹Éç Radio 3

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As well as being the composer of that Last Night favourite, Jerusalem, Hubert Parry (died 1918) was in many ways the father of contemporary English music, teaching both Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst.

Tonight’s celebration of his legacy features Parry’s own hope-filled Fifth Symphony alongside Vaughan Williams’s elegiac The Lark Ascending and two memorials inspired by the First World War: Holst’s Ode to Death and Vaughan Williams’s Pastoral Symphony.

Broadcast live on Â鶹Éç Four

Image: Tai Murray © Julia Wesely

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