Performances of Benjamin Britten at BBC Proms

Tue 5 Aug 2025

• 19:00

  Great British Classics

  Royal Albert Hall

  The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Nil Venditti celebrate Britain’s land- and sea-scapes with works including Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’

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  The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Nil Venditti celebrate Britain’s land- and sea-scapes with works including Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’

  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)

  Performers

  • Liya Petrova

    violin
    violin
  • BBC National Orchestra of Wales
  • Nil Venditti

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • William Walton
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Benjamin Britten
  • William Mathias
  • John Rutter
  • Grace Williams
  • Edward Elgar

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  Part of

  Proms 2025 Classical for starters Proms on TV

  

  On Sale 17 May

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

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