Friday Night at the Proms: In Memoriam WWI
Vaughan Williams's Pastoral Symphony, George Butterworth's settings of AE Housman poems, Frederick Septimus Kelly's Elegy for Rupert Brooke and Rudi Stephan's Music for Orchestra.
Razia Iqbal and Petroc Trelawny present a special concert drawing together four composers whose lives and music were impacted by WW1.
The 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Manze performs Vaughan Williams's post-war composition, the elegiac Pastoral Symphony.
The three promising young composers also featured in the concert were all killed in the war and have left us poignant evocations of lost lands and innocence destroyed - George Butterworth's settings of poems from AE Housman's nostalgic collection A Shropshire Lad; Australian-born Frederick Septimus Kelly's Elegy for his friend Rupert Brooke; and, from across the battle lines, German composer Rudi Stephan's Music for Orchestra.
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Vaughan Williams and the Lost Generation
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Music Played
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Stephan
Music for Orchestra (1912)
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze. -
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Frederick Kelly
Elegy for strings, in memoriam Rupert Brooke
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze. -
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George Butterworth
Six Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad'
Performer: Allan Clayton. Performer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze. -
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Pastoral Symphony
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Razia Iqbal |
| Presenter | Petroc Trelawny |
| Producer | Serena Cross |
| Director | Sian Lloyd |
| Orchestra | 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra |
| Conductor | Andrew Manze |
| Singer | Allan Clayton |
| Singer | Roderick Williams |
Broadcast
- Fri 22 Aug 2014 19:30
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