Prom 71

A series of farewells as Osmo Vänskä concludes
the season’s focus on Polish music and conducts
the premiere of Anthony Payne’s orchestration of
Vaughan Williams’s Four Last Songs. BBC Radio 3
New Generation Artists Ruby Hughes and Jennifer
Johnston are the soloists, Hughes singing the three
Polish texts of Henryk Górecki’s ‘Symphony of
Sorrowful Songs’, Johnston singing ‘Procris’,
‘Menelaus’, ‘Tired’ and ‘Hands, Eyes and Heart’
that make up the Vaughan Williams. Tchaikovsky’s
heartfelt ‘Pathétique’ is the penultimate instalment
of this summer’s cycle of his symphonies.Tickets £7.50 - £36.