Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom
Festival: BBC Proms
Dates/times in London time zone
| Tuesday 19 July 2022 | 19:00 |
Programme
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958) | Symphony no. 4 in F minor | |
| Tippett, Michael (1905-1998) | Symphony no. 4 |
Performers
| BBC Philharmonic | |
| Omer Meir Wellber | Conductor |
British music: it isn’t always what you think. Written as Europe lurched towards war, Vaughan Williams’s volcanic Fourth Symphony is a mighty cry of protest and rage, expressed in music that burns itself into the soul. A generation later in the Cold War, Michael Tippett began his final symphony with the most primal of sounds – a human breath. This isn’t so much a symphony as a whole life, in all its rapture, its chaos and its teeming, tumultuous beauty. The BBC Philharmonic has been making critical waves under its Chief Conductor Omer Meir Wellber, and it’s hard to imagine a programme better suited to their signature blend of passion and precision.
£8.50–£42 (plus booking fee)
