Prom 53: Elgar's The Music Makers
Live at the Â鶹Éç Proms. Sir Andrew Davis, the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and Sarah Connolly perform Elgar's great choral work. Plus music by Vaughan Williams and Hugh Wood.
Live at Â鶹Éç Proms: Sir Andrew Davis with the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Chorus & Sarah Connolly. Plus Vaughan Williams’s Tallis Fantasia and Hugh Wood’s Scenes from Comus.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Hugh Wood: Scenes from Comus
08.10
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08.40
Elgar: The Music Makers, Op.69
Stacey Tappan (soprano)
Anthony Gregory (tenor)
Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
Â鶹Éç Symphony Chorus*
Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
Sir Andrew Davis conducts the Â鶹Éç 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.
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Music Played
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. -
Hugh Wood
Scenes from Comus
Performer: Stacey Tappan. Performer: Anthony Gregory. -
Edward Elgar
The Music Makers
Performer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra. -
George Frideric Handel
Water Music Suite No.1, HWV 348
Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Gibson.
Broadcast
- Thu 29 Aug 2019 19:00Â鶹Éç Radio 3
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