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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
William Walton – Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Concerto Accademico
Grace Williams – Fairest of Stars
~ Interval ~
Edward Elgar – Froissart, Op.19
William Walton – Symphony no. 2
Performers
Tadaaki Otaka – Conductor
Chloë Hanslip – violin
Ailish Tynan – soprano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
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Programme Note
Elgar’s Froissart overture throbs with national pride and swagger, while Walton’s Second Symphony sustains an altogether darker, more contemplative mood. British violinist Chloë Hanslip is the soloist in Vaughan Williams’s rarely heard Concerto accademico - a work whose lyrical slow movement and dancing finale are anything but ‘academic’. The concert also features Welsh composer Grace Williams’s ecstatic, neo-Straussian Fairest of Stars for soprano and orchestra, a musical celebration of Milton’s poetry.