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St Paul's Church
Queen Caroline Street
Hammersmith
London
W6 9PJ
England
Programme
Anna Meredith – Nautilus
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony no.6 in E minor
Ruth Gipps – The Pulley (orch. Roderick Williams)
Ina Boyle – The Joy of Earth (orch. Roderick Williams)
Madeleine Dring – Take, O take those lips away (orch. Roderick Williams)
George Butterworth – 6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad (orch. Roderick Williams)
Performers
Marc Dooley – Conductor
William Semple – baritone
Fulham Symphony Orchestra
Programme Note
“Pure maximalist mayhem” is how GQ described Anna Meredith’s Nautilus, an exhilarating fanfare originally written for electronics in 2011. It has since appeared in numerous film and television soundtracks. This orchestral version was premiered in 2021.
Up-and-coming young baritone William Semple joins us to perform a selection of songs from Britain and Ireland orchestrated by celebrated singer and composer Roderick Williams.
Written in the aftermath of the Second World War, Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No. 6 is a work of immense emotional force. The conductor Leopold Stokowski wrote: “in this Symphony the world of music has a true picture of today, expressing the turmoil, the dark despair, the aspiration of an ideal future. Every listener will find his own meaning in the unique finale of this Symphony – one of the most profound expressions in all music.”
