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Proms 2019 Prom 53: Elgar's The Music Makers

Prom 53
Prom 53: Elgar's The Music Makers
19:00 Thu 29 Aug 2019 Royal Albert Hall
Elgar鈥檚 great choral work, The Music Makers, is the musical culmination of a career, drawing together quotations from many of the composer鈥檚 best-loved pieces. Vaughan Williams鈥檚 luminous 鈥楾allis鈥� Fantasia and Hugh Wood鈥檚 Comus complete the programme.
Elgar鈥檚 great choral work, The Music Makers, is the musical culmination of a career, drawing together quotations from many of the composer鈥檚 best-loved pieces. Vaughan Williams鈥檚 luminous 鈥楾allis鈥� Fantasia and Hugh Wood鈥檚 Comus complete the programme.

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Sir Andrew Davis conducts the 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly in Elgar鈥檚 last great choral work.

The Music Makers is the musical culmination of a career, drawing together quotations from many of the composer鈥檚 best-loved pieces, including the 鈥楨nigma鈥� Variations and Sea Pictures, and weaving them into a musical manifesto for the power of art.

The concert also includes Vaughan Williams鈥檚 luminous Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for double string orchestra and Hugh Wood鈥檚 lyrical setting of scenes from Milton鈥檚 pastoral masque Comus.

Approx. end time: 21:00

Image: Sir Andrew Davis 漏 Lucas Dawson Photography

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