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Prom 33: Titans of British Music

Name: Prom 33: Titans of British Music
Start: 2024-08-13T19:30:00
Location: Royal Albert Hall

BBC Symphony Orchestra

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From Westminster Bridge and the bells of Big Ben to Bloomsbury Square, in his A London Symphony Vaughan Williams depicts the English capital, where horses still trotted through the streets and the countryside could be glimpsed from Marble Arch. Elgar’s ‘stout and steaky’ picture-postcard scenes of London life join anniversary composer Holst’s Hammersmith, commissioned for the BBC Military Band, in saluting the city. Vaughan Williams’s teacher Sta...

Program

Edward Elgar - Cockaigne (In London Town)

Composer

Ralph Vaughan Williams - A London Symphony

Composer

Gustav Holst - Hammersmith

Participants

Christopher Maltman

Singer

Martyn Brabbins

Conductor

BBC Symphony Orchestra