BBC Proms 2024 - Prom 33 - Titans of British Music (320kbps .mp3)

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Martyn Brabbins, performs Elgar, Vaughan Williams's London Symphony, and Stanford Songs with Christopher Maltman.

01. Elgar - Overture ‘Cockaigne (In London Town)’
01a. Introduction to Elgar’s Cockaigne
02. Holst – Hammersmith
02a. Introduction to Holst’s Hammersmith
03. Stanford - Songs of Faith Op.97
Three Whitman settings:
– ‘To the Soul’
– ‘Tears’
– ‘Joy, shipmate, joy!’
Stanford: The Fairy Lough
03a. Introduction to Stanford
03b. BBC Proms 2024 - Prom 33 - Titans of British Music - interval
Penny Gore’s guest is the historian and journalist Simon Heffer whose books include The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 and Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars. For Radio 3 he has presented series and documentaries about British classical music.
04. Vaughan Williams - A London Symphony (Symphony No.2)

Christopher Maltman (baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

From Westminster Bridge and the bells of Big Ben to Bloomsbury Square, in his A London Symphony Vaughan Williams depicts the English capital, where horses still trotted through the streets and the countryside could be glimpsed from Marble Arch. Elgar’s ‘stout and steaky’ picture-postcard scenes of London life join anniversary composer Holst’s Hammersmith, commissioned for the BBC Military Band, in saluting the city. Vaughan Williams’s teacher Stanford (who died 100 years ago) completes the programme, with a selection of reflective songs performed by leading British baritone Christopher Maltman.

Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

First broadcast: 13 August 2024
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