Name: Prom 6: Vaughan Williams and Tippett – Full Fourths
Start: 2022-07-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-07-19T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Organization

Conductor

Andrew Davis

BBC Philharmonic

Orchestra

Royal Albert Hall

Prom 6: Vaughan Williams and Tippett – Full Fourths

London

United Kingdom

BBC Proms

Prom 6: Vaughan Williams and Tippett – Full Fourths: Symphony No 4 Vaughan Williams (+1 More)

Concert

Oratorio / Orchestral

Symphony No 4

Symphony No. 4

Approved

British music: it isn’t always what you think. Written as Europe lurched towards war, Vaughan Williams’s volcanic Fourth Symphony is a mighty 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. The BBC Philharmonic returns for its second Prom of the season to give both works their due under the ever-reliable baton of Sir Andrew Davis.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble