Prom 26: British Composers

Elgar’s Froissart overture throbs with national pride and swagger, while Walton’s Second Symphony sustains an altogether darker, more contemplative mood. Former BBC Young Musician Chloë Hanslip is the soloist in Vaughan Williams’s rarely heard Concerto accademico – a work whose lyrical slow movement and dancing finale are anything but ‘academic’. The concert also features Welsh composer Grace Williams’s ecstatic, neo-Straussian Fairest of Stars for soprano and orchestra, a musical 132 For details see bbc.co.uk/proms CONCERT LISTINGS celebration of Milton’s poetry.

Tickets from £7.50 - £38.