Intérprete: David Atherton

Elizabeth Atherton sang with a keening intensity, and gave a voice to every grieving mother and child.

A celebration of fifty years of the London Sinfonietta was a well-deserved pat on the back for this valuable institution.

Only at the Proms could you hear two stalwarts of the 20th-century English school alongside a new concerto by an Indian classical sitar player. To be fair the work, by Holst was entitled Indra and has its roots in the composers study of Indian Sanskrit, which led to a number of works based on Hindu myths – culminating in his beautiful opera Savitri.