Vaughan Williams
From the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Christopher Cook presents a concert in which Mark Elder conducts the Halle orchestra in Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony.
Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.
Presented by Christopher Cook.
Written as the storm clouds of war were gathering, Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony is a glorious paean to peace that opens with a gentle horn call and ends in a serene glow. A sweetly expressive lovers' theme, a military band and even a cheeky cockney street urchin feature in Elgar's overture Cockaigne, a beguiling musical picture of our capital city. Alongside these two British masterpieces is Dvor谩k's lovely and highly lyrical Serenade. Completed in 1878, it gave the Czech composer one of his earliest successes, and will be conducted this evening by the Halle's assistant conductor Andrew Gourlay.
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.5
Halle Orchestra
Conductor Sir Mark Elder
Assistant Conductor Andrew Gourlay*.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony no. 5 in D major
Conductor: Mark ELDER Performer: Halle Orchestra
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Serenade in D minor Op.44 for wind instruments
Conductor: Andrew GOURLAY Performer: Halle Orchestra
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Edward Elgar
Cockaigne (In London town) - overture Op.40
Conductor: Mark ELDER Performer: Halle Orchestra
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- Wed 9 Nov 2011 19:30大象传媒 Radio 3
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