Prom 6: Vaughan Williams and Tippett 鈥� Full Fourths

19 Jul 2022, Royal Albert Hall

19:00 Tue 19 Jul 2022 Next Event

Proms 2022 Prom 6: Vaughan Williams and Tippett 鈥� 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 大象传媒 Philharmonic in Vaughan Williams鈥檚 and Michael Tippett鈥檚 Fourth symphonies.

Programme

- - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  - Symphony No. 4 in F minor(30 mins)
- - interval
- - Michael Tippett
  - Symphony No. 4(33 mins)

Performers

大象传媒 Philharmonic
Sir Andrew Davis
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

British music: it isn鈥檛 always what you think. Written as Europe lurched towards war, Vaughan Williams鈥檚 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 鈥� a human breath. This isn鈥檛 so much a symphony as a whole life, in all its rapture, its chaos and its teeming, tumultuous beauty. The 大象传媒 Philharmonic returns for its second Prom of the season to give both works their due under the ever-reliable baton of Sir Andrew Davis.

Image: Sir Andrew Davis