Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Green and Pleasant Land Series
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Event at Royal Albert Hall from Sunday 6 Apr 2008 to Sunday 29 Jun 2008
 SUNDAY 6th APRIL 2008, 7.30pm
Green and Pleasant Land
Vaughan Williams The Wasps Overture
Elgar Sea Pictures
Tippett A Child of Our Time
Elgars Sea Pictures songs, composed around the same time as the Enigma Variations, set texts by poets that include Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the composers wife Alice. First performed in 1899 by the legendary Clara Butt (wearing a costume that suggested a mermaid!) the songs are an essentially English response to the changing moods and colours of the sea. Tippett modelled his extraordinary A Child of Our Time on the Passions of JS Bach, ingeniously replacing the customary Lutheran chorales with his own arrangements of Negro spirituals. The text (written by the composer) is a clear statement of Tippetts pacificism, and the impassioned music, composed during World War II, has proved to be Tippetts most popular work.
Conductor - Sir Andrew Davis
Soprano - Nicole Cabell
Mezzo-Soprano - Catherine Wyn-Rogers
Tenor - Toby Spence
Bass - David Wilson-Johnson
London Symphony Chorus
London Philharmonic Choir
Concert Promoted by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
SUNDAY 29th JUNE 2008, 7.30pm
Green and Pleasant Land
Elgar " 'Enigma' Variations
Vaughan Williams " Symphony No.2,'London'
Nobody has yet solved the mystery of Elgar's magnificent 'Enigma' Variations. Although we know the identities of the friends portrayed in each variation, no-one has yet positively identified the other theme that Elgar declared 'goes' with the opening melody. The work has lost none of its power or passion over the years, and includes the glorious 'Nimrod', Elgar's heartfelt tribute to his great friend Jaeger. Englishness of a more metropolitan kind underlies the second of Vaughan Williams' nine symphonies, although there is actually very little that is obviously 'London' in the work, aside from the unmistakable sound of the Westminster chimes. Completed in 1913, this 'Symphony by a Londoner' (as its composer preferred to call it) remains a compelling and imaginatively constructed orchestral canvas.
Conductor - Sir Andrew Davis
Concert Promoted by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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