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19 Jul 2022, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2022 Prom 6: Vaughan Williams and Tippett – Full Fourths

Prom 6
Prom 6: Vaughan Williams and Tippett – Full Fourths
19:00 Tue 19 Jul 2022 Royal Albert Hall
Two uncompromising landmarks of 20th-century British music, as Sir Andrew Davis conducts the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic in Vaughan Williams’s and Michael Tippett’s Fourth symphonies.
Two uncompromising landmarks of 20th-century British music, as Sir Andrew Davis conducts the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic in Vaughan Williams’s and Michael Tippett’s Fourth symphonies.

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British music: it isn’t always what you think. Written as Europe lurched towards war, Vaughan Williams’s volcanic Fourth Symphony is a mighty cry of protest and rage, expressed in music that burns itself into the soul. A generation later in the Cold War, Michael Tippett began his final symphony with the most primal of sounds – a human breath. This isn’t so much a symphony as a whole life, in all its rapture, its chaos and its teeming, tumultuous beauty. The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic returns for its second Prom of the season to give both works their due under the ever-reliable baton of Sir Andrew Davis.

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