91Èȱ¬

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.