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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Constantin Stephan – Music for Orchestra (1912)
Michael Kelly – Elegy for strings, in memoriam Rupert Brooke
George Butterworth – 6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad (orch. P Brookes)
~ Interval ~
Ralph Vaughan Williams – A Pastoral Symphony (Symphony no.3)
Performers
Allan Clayton – tenor
Roderick Williams – baritone
Andrew Manze – Conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
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Programme Note
Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad reflects a world on the brink of collapse while Vaughan Williams’s Pastoral Symphony is a vision of war-ravaged France. Like Butterworth, both Rudi Stephan and Frederick Kelly were killed in the First World War; the latter’s exquisite Elegy for strings was performed at his own memorial concert. Stephan’s Music for Orchestra (1912) finds a desperate intensity in its Expressionist colours.