91Èȱ¬

Proms favourite John Wilson – who returns later this season with his John Wilson Orchestra (Proms 34 & 35) – tonight makes his first appearance at the Proms as the 91Èȱ¬ Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s new Associate Guest Conductor.

Here he swaps Hollywood and Broadway classics for another of his personal passions: the great British symphonic classics. Holst’s galactic suite conjures up the epic scope of a movie blockbuster in luminous music of infinite vistas, while Vaughan Williams’s enigmatic final symphony also revels in an augmented sound-world: it’s a piece Wilson sees as a suitably radical counterpart to The Planets.

Tickets for this concert are now very limited. However tickets are still available for his performances of Rogers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! with the John Wilson Orchestra on Friday 11 August (Proms 34 and 35). See below for more details.

Image: John Wilson © Sim Canetty-Clarke