The Glasshouse International Centre for Music: Sage OneSt Mary's Square
Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, North-East, NE8 2JR, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Programme
| Coates, Eric (1886-1957) | Dancing Nights: Concert Waltz | |
| Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937) | Mother Goose (Ma Mère l'Oye) | |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958) | Symphony no. 5 in D major |
Performers
| Royal Northern Sinfonia | |
| John Wilson | Conductor |
As London waned under attacks
from enemy bombers, Ralph
Vaughan Williams offered its people
his Fifth Symphony.
Suddenly, against the severity of
war, there was the serenity of peace
– a glimpse of spiritual victory that
felt as real in the music as could
be imagined. John Wilson conducts
Vaughan Williams’s great
masterpiece and delicate dance
scores by Coates and Ravel.
from enemy bombers, Ralph
Vaughan Williams offered its people
his Fifth Symphony.
Suddenly, against the severity of
war, there was the serenity of peace
– a glimpse of spiritual victory that
felt as real in the music as could
be imagined. John Wilson conducts
Vaughan Williams’s great
masterpiece and delicate dance
scores by Coates and Ravel.
