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Prom 6: Vaughan Williams and Tippett - Full Fourths

BBC Proms 2022

Live at the BBC Proms: Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Vaughan Williams Fourth Symphony and Tippett's Fourth Symphony.

Live at the BBC Proms
Presented by Tom McKinney live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.4 in F minor (30')

Interval:
During the interval, Tom McKinney talks to composer William Mival about the significance of the two symphonies in tonight’s Prom.

Michael Tippett: Symphony No.4 (33')

British music: it isn't always what you think. Written as Europe lurched towards the war, Vaughan Williams's volcanic Fourth Symphony is a might cry of protest and rage, expressed in music that burns itself into the soul. A generation later in the Cold War, Michael Tippett began his final symphony with the most primal of sounds - a human breath. This isn't so much a symphony as a whole life, in all its rapture, its chaos and its teeming, tumultuous beauty.

BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Davis (conductor)

2 hours, 14 minutes

Last on

Tue 19 Jul 2022 19:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No. 4 in F minor

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.

  • Michael Tippett

    Symphony No. 4

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Quartet in F minor op 80

    Ensemble: Van Kuijk Quartet.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Tit for tat

    Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: James Newby.

Broadcast

  • Tue 19 Jul 2022 19:00
    BBC Radio 3

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