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Symphony No. 2, 'A London Symphony'
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performers: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
Recording date: 23 July 2003
Date of broadcast: 23 July 2003
This programmatic symphony - music with a story - gives us a picture of London. Here is the city's nature: buttoned-up seriousness, busyness, and beauty. Vaughan Williams allows us to paint our own scenes: bells across morning mist-veiled Thames, the noise of parade-ground bands, and bustle of the West End. Then, nightfall.
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performers: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
Recording date: 23 July 2003
Date of broadcast: 23 July 2003
