Sat 30 Aug 2025

• 11:00

  Rattle Conducts Folk Songs and Dances

  Royal Albert Hall

  Sir Simon Rattle teams up with the wind, brass and percussion of the London Symphony Orchestra to perform folk-song arrangements by Vaughan Williams, Grainger and Arnold alongside Gunther Schuller’s eclectic trombone concerto

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  Sir Simon Rattle teams up with the wind, brass and percussion of the London Symphony Orchestra to perform folk-song arrangements by Vaughan Williams, Grainger and Arnold alongside Gunther Schuller’s eclectic trombone concerto

  Programme

  • • • Ralph Vaughan Williams
      • English Folk Song Suite(14 mins)
    • • Gunther Schuller
      • Eine kleine Posaunenmusik(16 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Michael Tippett
      • Triumph: A paraphrase on music from ‘The Mask of Time’(15 mins)
    • • Malcolm Arnold
      • English Dances, Set No. 1(9 mins)(version for wind band)
    • • Percy Grainger
      • The Lads of Wamphray(9 mins)
    • • Trad.
      • Country Gardens(6 mins)arr. Percy Grainger
    • • Percy Grainger
      • A Lincolnshire Posy(16 mins)

  Performers

  • Peter Moore

    trombone
    trombone
  • London Symphony Orchestra

    wind, brass and percussion
    wind, brass and percussion
  • Sir Simon Rattle

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Gunther Schuller
  • Michael Tippett
  • Malcolm Arnold
  • Percy Grainger
  • Trad.

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  On Sale 17 May

  Seats from £26 to £86 (plus booking fee)

  Seats from £26 to £86 (plus booking fee)
• 19:30

  Handel’s ‘Alexander’s Feast’

  Royal Albert Hall

  Award-winning Baroque dynamos Peter Whelan and the Irish Baroque Orchestra make their Proms debut with Handel’s oratorio Alexander’s Feast, given here in the three-part version the composer made for performances in Dublin in 1742

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  Award-winning Baroque dynamos Peter Whelan and the Irish Baroque Orchestra make their Proms debut with Handel’s oratorio Alexander’s Feast, given here in the three-part version the composer made for performances in Dublin in 1742

  Programme

  • • • George Frideric Handel
      • Alexander’s Feast(107 mins)1742 version (sung in English)

  Performers

  • Hilary Cronin

    soprano
    soprano
  • Hugh Cutting

    counter-tenor
    counter-tenor
  • Stuart Jackson

    tenor
    tenor
  • Irish Baroque Chorus
  • Irish Baroque Orchestra
  • Peter Whelan

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • George Frideric Handel

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  Also part of

  Discovery at the Proms

  

  On Sale 17 May

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

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