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Prom 17: Hallé – Debussy, Vaughan Williams & Elgar

Part of the Proms 2015 Series

Add to my Calendar 30-07-2015 19:30 30-07-2015 21:30 36 Prom 17: Hallé – Debussy, Vaughan Williams & Elgar Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé champion Vaughan Williams’s neglected oratorio Sancta civitas - an ecstatic vision of post-apocalyptic salvation. It’s a piece made for the huge space of the Royal Albert Hall, where its heavenly trumpets and choirs can swell to full force. Described by Elgar’s wife as ‘vast in design and supremely beautiful’, his Second Symphony took a while to win public affection, but is now almost as cherished as Debussy’s evocative tone-poem depicting the lascivious thoughts of a sleepy faun - a work the composer Pierre Boulez has hailed as signalling the beginning of modern music. Royal Albert Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England

Programme

Claude Debussy – Prelude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Sancta Civitas
~ Interval ~
Edward Elgar – Symphony no.2 in E flat major, Op.63

Performers

Mark Elder – Conductor
 Robin Tritschler – tenor
 Iain Paterson – baritone

Hallé Orchestra
 Hallé Youth Choir
 Trinity Boys Choir
 Hallé Choir
 London Philharmonic Choir

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Programme Note

Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé champion Vaughan Williams’s neglected oratorio Sancta civitas - an ecstatic vision of post-apocalyptic salvation. It’s a piece made for the huge space of the Royal Albert Hall, where its heavenly trumpets and choirs can swell to full force. Described by Elgar’s wife as ‘vast in design and supremely beautiful’, his Second Symphony took a while to win public affection, but is now almost as cherished as Debussy’s evocative tone-poem depicting the lascivious thoughts of a sleepy faun - a work the composer Pierre Boulez has hailed as signalling the beginning of modern music.

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