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Fri 27 Jul 2018

• 17:15

  Proms Plus Talk

  Imperial College Union

  Writer Melissa Harrison and archaeologist Francis Pryor contemplate contemporary British landscapes and the challenges of rural life today.

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• 19:00

  Prom 17: Parry, Vaughan Williams & Holst

  Royal Albert Hall

  Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and Pastoral Symphony sit alongside music by Holst and Parry’s stirring Fifth Symphony in this centenary celebration of Hubert Parry – father of 20th-century English music. Martyn Brabbins conducts the ´óÏó´«Ã½ NOW.

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  Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and Pastoral Symphony sit alongside music by Holst and Parry’s stirring Fifth Symphony in this centenary celebration of Hubert Parry – father of 20th-century English music. Martyn Brabbins conducts the ´óÏó´«Ã½ NOW.

  Programme

  • • • Hubert Parry
      • Symphony No. 5 in B minor(27 mins)
    • • Ralph Vaughan Williams
      • The Lark Ascending(15 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Hubert Parry
      • Hear my words, ye people(15 mins)
    • • Gustav Holst
      • Ode to Death(12 mins)
    • • Ralph Vaughan Williams
      • Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 3)(35 mins)

  Performers

  • Tai Murray

    violin
    violin
  • Francesca Chiejina

    soprano
    soprano
  • Ashley Riches

    bass-baritone
    bass-baritone
  • ´óÏó´«Ã½ National Chorus of Wales
  • ´óÏó´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales
  • Martyn Brabbins

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Hubert Parry
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Gustav Holst

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