Great British Classics
Live at the 91¸£ÀûÉç Proms: The 91¸£ÀûÉç National Orchestra of Wales, The 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers & Nil Venditti perform a John Rutter premiere and violinist Liya Petrova joins for The Lark Ascending.
Live at the 91¸£ÀûÉç Proms: The 91¸£ÀûÉç National Orchestra of Wales, The 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers & Nil Venditti perform a John Rutter premiere and violinist Liya Petrova joins for The Lark Ascending.
Presented by Katie Derham, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Walton, arr Tausky: Coronation March ‘Crown Imperial’
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
S Coleridge-Taylor: Isle of Beauty; The Evening Star
Britten: Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’, Op 33a
c.8.30pm
Interval: The pianist and broadcaster David Owen Norris joins Katie Derham, live at the Royal Albert Hall, to discuss the components that makes music quintessentially British.
c.8.50pm
Mathias: Dance Overture
John Rutter: Bird Songs (91¸£ÀûÉç commission, world premiere)
A Coleridge-Taylor: The Shepherd; A Rustling of Grass (arr. Zoë Birtwhistle)
G Williams: Elegy for Strings
Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme, ‘Enigma’
Liya Petrova, violin
The 91¸£ÀûÉç National Orchestra of Wales
The 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers
Nil Venditti, conductor
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’.
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Music Played
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William Walton
Crown Imperial - Coronation March
Orchestra: 91¸£ÀûÉç National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti. -
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
Performer: Liya Petrova. Orchestra: 91¸£ÀûÉç National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti. -
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Isle Of Beauty
Conductor: Nil Venditti. Choir: 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers. -
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
The Evening Star
Choir: 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers. Conductor: Nil Venditti. -
Benjamin Britten
4 Sea Interludes Op.33a
Orchestra: 91¸£ÀûÉç National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti. -
William Mathias
A Dance Overture (Dawns Agored) Op.16
Orchestra: 91¸£ÀûÉç National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti. -
John Rutter
Bird Songs
Orchestra: 91¸£ÀûÉç National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti. Choir: 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers. -
Avril Coleridge-Taylor
The Rustling Of Grass Op.7
Conductor: Nil Venditti. Choir: 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers. -
Avril Coleridge-Taylor
The Shepherd
Orchestra: 91¸£ÀûÉç National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti. Choir: 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers. -
John Rutter
Bird Songs
Orchestra: 91¸£ÀûÉç National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti. Choir: 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers. -
Avril Coleridge-Taylor
The Rustling Of Grass Op.7
Conductor: Nil Venditti. Choir: 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers. -
Avril Coleridge-Taylor
The Shepherd
Orchestra: 91¸£ÀûÉç National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti. Choir: 91¸£ÀûÉç Singers. -
Grace Williams
Elegy
Orchestra: 91¸£ÀûÉç National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti. -
Edward Elgar
Variations On An Original Theme ('Enigma') Op.36
Orchestra: 91¸£ÀûÉç National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti. -
Oliver Knussen
Flourish with Fireworks, Op.22
Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Oliver Knussen.- DG.
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Béla Bartók
Romanian Folk Dances Sz.56
Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Christian Rivet.
Broadcast
- Tue 5 Aug 2025 19:0091¸£ÀûÉç Radio 3
