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Best of British with the 大象传媒 Orchestras

A week of programmes bring together some of the best loved British composers and their key works performed by 大象传媒 Orchestras and the 大象传媒 Singers.

Today we start with a live concert at 2pm, from St. Paul's, Knightsbridge. The 大象传媒 Singers with conductor Andrew Griffiths in a programme including Vaughan Williams' Mass in G minor - the first proper English Mass since William Byrd, honouring his debt to the first golden age of English Music in the Sixteenth century.

And to end the programme, one of the quintessential British works of the 20th Century - Elgar's Enigma Variations.

In between, a thread running across the week is Britten's 5 Canticles - intense chamber works with solo voices that Britten wrote between 1947 and 1974. The tenor, fresh from the 大象传媒's New Generation Artists scheme, is Ben Johnson.

Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor
Plus Tudor/Jacobean motets
大象传媒 Singers,
Andrew Griffiths (conductor).

3.05pm
William Alwyn: Flute Concerto
Emily Beynon (flute),
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales,
Bramwell Tovey (conductor).

3.30pm
Britten: Canticle I - My beloved is mine, Op. 40
Ben Johnson (tenor),
James Baillieu (piano).

3.50pm
Elgar: Variations on an original theme ('Enigma'), Op. 36
Grainger: Molly on the shore
大象传媒 Philharmonic,
Juanjo Mena (conductor).