Prom 53: Elgar's The Music Makers
Live at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms. Sir Andrew Davis, the 91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and Sarah Connolly perform Elgar's great choral work. Plus music by Vaughan Williams and Hugh Wood.
Live at 91Èȱ¬ Proms: Sir Andrew Davis with the 91Èȱ¬ 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
Interval - Proms Plus Talk: Musicologist Kate Kennedy discusses aspects of Elgar's The Music Makers with Jordan Kistler, author of a book about O'Shaughnessy, whose poem Elgar set
08.40
Elgar: The Music Makers, Op.69
Stacey Tappan (soprano)
Anthony Gregory (tenor)
Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
91Èȱ¬ Symphony Chorus*
91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
Sir Andrew Davis conducts the 91Èȱ¬ 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: 91Èȱ¬ 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: 91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra. -
George Frideric Handel
Water Music Suite No.1, HWV 348
Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Gibson.
Broadcast
- Thu 29 Aug 2019 19:0091Èȱ¬ Radio 3
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