Pre-War Soundscapes

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Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

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Programme

Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)	Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)	Piano Concerto in G major
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)	Années de pèlerinage, Première année: Suisse, S 160: Au lac de Wallenstadt
Walton, William (1902-1983)	Symphony no. 1 in B flat minor

Performers

Nicholas Collon	Conductor
Philharmonia Orchestra
Francesco Piemontesi	Piano

Three inventive masterworks composed in peacetime that was not to last: infused with jazz, Basque and Spanish influences, Ravel’s dreamlike Piano Concerto (1931) is juxtaposed with the pastoral tranquillity of Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia (1910). William Walton’s powerful, Sibelius-inspired Symphony No. 1 (1934) is full of driving rhythms and searing intensity.

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Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

Mark Pullinger, 5th October

How does this work by Vaughan Williams, an agnostic who composed hymns and was inspired by church music, cast its spell over audiences?

Fierce Walton from Collon and the Philharmonia

Mark Pullinger, 1st December

Breaking up is hard to do. If his First Symphony is anything to go by, William Walton took it particularly badly.

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