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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Greensleeves
Harrison Birtwistle – Exody
~ Interval ~
Izaak Walton – Viola Concerto
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony no.4 in F minor
Performers
Lise Berthaud – viola
Andrew Litton – Conductor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Programme Note
Andrew Litton joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra for an evening of 20th-century British music that looks beyond the pastoral stereotypes.
The idyll of Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’ is soon abandoned in the composer’s dark and questioning Symphony No. 4 and Birtwistle’s Exody, an overwhelming musical labyrinth of sound.
This year’s composer focus on William Walton continues with his much-loved Viola Concerto - a work that had its premiere at the Proms, conducted by the composer and featuring composer and violist Paul Hindemith as soloist.