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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First Season - Prom 17 - Halle Orchestra and Mark Elder
Performance Date30 July 2015
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:32
Main PerformersRobin Tritschler,
Iain Paterson - vocals
Orchestra or BandHallé
ChoirsLondon Philharmonic Choir,
Hallé Youth Choir,
Trinity Boys Choir,
Hallé Choir
ConductorsSir Mark Elder
Set List'Prelude a L'apres-Midi D'un Faune', Debussy,
'Sancta Civitas' Vaughan Williams
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.2 in E Flat Major' Elgar
Performance NotesElgar performance recorded for broadcast on BBC Four on 2 August 2015.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.

Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé champion Vaughan Williams’s neglected oratorio Sancta civitas – an ecstatic vision of post-apocalyptic salvation. It’s a piece made for the huge space of the Royal Albert Hall, where its heavenly trumpets and choirs can swell to full force. Described by Elgar’s wife as ‘vast in design and supremely beautiful’, his Second Symphony took a while to win public affection, but is now almost as cherished as Debussy’s evocative tone-poem depicting the lascivious thoughts of a sleepy faun – a work the composer Pierre Boulez has hailed as signalling the beginning of modern music.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2015/60),
Programme (RAHE/1/2015/75),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2015/37),
Digital Photographs
Ticket Prices£5-£38.00
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2015/75BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First Season - Prom 1730 July 2015
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work10256BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/919Elder; Sir; Mark Philip (1947-); CBE; British conductor
DS/UK/1000Halle; 1858-; English symphony orchestra
DS/UK/3554Trinity School of John Whitgift; Trinity Boys Choir; c1960s-; English school choir
DS/UK/1014Halle; Halle Youth Choir; c1858-; English youth choir
DS/UK/1004London Philharmonic Choir; 1947-; English choir
DS/UK/1282Paterson; Iain (1973-); Scottish baritone
DS/UK/20695Tritschler; Robin (fl 2013-); Irish tenor
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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