05.08.25 BBC NOW performs Mathias & Williams

Tuesday 05.08.25

Royal Albert Hall, London

A celebration of Britain’s land and sea-scapes. Hear the soaring flight of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending as well as the many moods of the North Sea as it meets Suffolk shingle in Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’.

Broadcast on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer

Programme

Walton Coronation March ‘Orb and Sceptre’ 7’

S. Coleridge-Taylor The Lee Shore; Isle of Beauty; The Evening Star 9’

A. Coleridge-Taylor The Shepherd 4’

Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending 13’

Britten Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’16’

interval

William Mathias Dance Overture 6’

John Rutter new work c8’

Grace Williams Elegy for Strings 7’

Elgar ‘Enigma’ Variations 31’

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