Great British Classics

5 Aug 2025, Royal Albert Hall

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Seats from £11 to £56 (plus booking fee)

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On Sale 17 May

Programme

- - William Walton
  - Coronation March ‘Orb and Sceptre’(7 mins)
- - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  - The Lee Shore(3 mins)
  - Isle of Beauty(3 mins)
  - The Evening Star(3 mins)
- - Avril Coleridge-Taylor
  - The Shepherd(4 mins)
- - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  - The Lark Ascending(13 mins)
- - Benjamin Britten
  - Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’(16 mins)
- - interval
- - William Mathias
  - Dance Overture(6 mins)
- - John Rutter
  - new work(8 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- - Grace Williams
  - Elegy for Strings(7 mins)
- - Edward Elgar
  - ‘Enigma’ Variations(31 mins)

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About This Event

A celebration of Britain’s land- and sea-scapes. Hear the soaring flight of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending as well as the many moods of the North Sea as it meets Suffolk shingle in Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’.

Broadcast on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer this season