Scott of the Antarctic: Film with Live Orchestra by Various, Ds. 15 Oct. 2022, De (2022/2022), Director musical Andrew Manze, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, United Kingdom

“To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield”. The story of Captain Scott’s tragic voyage to the South Pole is one of the greatest of all adventures, and the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic is a true classic of British cinema, shot in spectacular full-colour. Naturally, they asked Vaughan Williams to write the score and now, in his 150th anniversary year, we get to hear his extraordinary music in full-colour too, as the Orchestra, Choir, soprano soloist and Andrew Manze accompany the film, live in concert. The score later formed the basis of his Sinfonia antartica (Symphony No.7). 'The music remains a marvel, providing the emotional undercurrent that this tale of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition needs. Vaughan Williams may never have visited the end of the earth himself but he understood the terror and majesty of its landscape, channelling it into craggy themes, unsettling dissonances and eerie orchestration…' The Times