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Prom 2: John Wilson conducts the Sinfonia of London

Live 91Èȱ¬ Proms: John Wilson conducts the Sinfonia of London in Vaughan Williams, Walton and Elgar. They are joined by flautist Adam Walker for Huw Watkins's Flute Concerto.

Live at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms: John Wilson conducts the Sinfonia of London in music by Vaughan Williams, Walton and Elgar. They are joined by flautist Adam Walker for Huw Watkins's Flute Concerto.

Presented by Andrew McGregor, live at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Huw Watkins: Flute Concerto
Bax: Tintagel

c.19.30:
Interval: Andrew McGregor is joined by Professor Fiona Stafford to reflect on how poets have constructed, expressed and represented what it means to be English, from the Tudor contemporaries of Thomas Tallis, via the Romantics, to the 20th century.

c.19:50:
Walton: Partita for Orchestra
Elgar: ‘Enigma’ Variations

Adam Walker, flute
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson, conductor

British conductor John Wilson has long been a Proms favourite, but last year’s debut appearance of his new super-orchestra the Sinfonia of London caused a sensation. ‘Astonishing,’ wrote The Times. For The Spectator, this was ‘an orchestra so thrillingly alive with the sheer glory of it all that hearing them play felt like being a teenager in love’. Now Wilson and the Sinfonia are back, in an all-British programme that pairs much-loved classics by Elgar and Vaughan-Williams with Walton’s kaleidoscopic Partita, Bax’s stirring musical seascape and Huw Watkins’s spirited Flute Concerto, played by its dedicatee Adam Walker.

2 hours, 44 minutes

Last on

Sat 16 Jul 2022 18:30

Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
  • Huw Watkins

    Flute Concerto

    Performer: Adam Walker. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
  • Arnold Bax

    Tintagel

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
  • Arnold Bax

    Country-Tune

    Performer: Eric Parkin.
    • Arnold Bax: Piano music volume 1: Eric Parkin.
    • Chandos.
  • Gerald Finzi

    A Young Man's Exhortation (Shortening Days)

    Performer: Roger Vignoles. Singer: Mark Padmore.
    • Who Are These Chidren? and Other Songs.
    • HYPERION.
    • 6.
  • William Walton

    Partia

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
  • Edward Elgar

    Enigma Variations

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
  • Eric Coates

    Summer Days Suite - At the Dance

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
  • Judith Weir

    Airs from Another Planet [complete]

    Ensemble: Hebrides Ensemble.
    • Airs from Another Planet: Chamber Music and Songs by Judith Weir.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 16-19.
  • Thomas Tallis

    If ye love me

    Choir: Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge. Director: Mark Williams.
    • SIGNUM.

Broadcast

  • Sat 16 Jul 2022 18:30

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