Prom 53: Elgar's The Music Makers

29 Aug 2019, Royal Albert Hall

19:00 Thu 29 Aug 2019 Next Event

19:00 Thu 29 Aug 2019 Royal Albert Hall

Elgar’s great choral work, The Music Makers, is the musical culmination of a career, drawing together quotations from many of the composer’s best-loved pieces. Vaughan Williams’s luminous ‘Tallis’ Fantasia and Hugh Wood’s Comus complete the programme.

Programme

- - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis(16 mins)
- - Hugh Wood
  - Scenes from Comus(28 mins)
- - interval
- - Edward Elgar
  - The Music Makers(38 mins)

Performers

Stacey Tappan
soprano
soprano
Dame Sarah Connolly
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
Anthony Gregory
tenor
tenor
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

Sir Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly in Elgar’s last great choral work.

The Music Makers is the musical culmination of a career, drawing together quotations from many of the composer’s best-loved pieces, including the ‘Enigma’ Variations and Sea Pictures, and weaving them into a musical manifesto for the power of art.

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

Approx. end time: 21:00