Edward Elgar
Overture ‘Cockaigne (In London Town)’
Gustav Holst
Hammersmith
Charles Villiers Stanford
Songs of Faith – ‘To the Soul’
Stanford Songs of Faith – ‘Tears’
Stanford Songs of Faith – ‘Joy, shipmate, joy!’
‘The Fairy Lough’
Ralph Vaughan Williams
A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
Christopher Maltman
baritone
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins
conductor
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Reviewed: 13 August, 2024
Venue: Royal Albert hall
From Westminster Bridge and the bells of Big Ben to Bloomsbury Square, in his A London Symphony Vaughan Williams depicts the English capital, where horses still trotted through the streets and the countryside could be glimpsed from Marble Arch. Elgar’s ‘stout and steaky’ picture-postcard scenes of London life join anniversary composer Holst’s Hammersmith, commissioned for the BBC Military Band, in saluting the city. Vaughan Williams’s teacher Stanford (who died 100 years ago) completes the programme, with a selection of reflective songs performed by leading British baritone Christopher Maltman.
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