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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 23 - Williams, Ireland, Delius and Walton
Performance Date31 July 2012
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersJonathan Lemalu - vocals
Orchestra or BandLondon Brass,
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
ChoirsBBC Symphony Chorus,
BBC National Chorus of Wales
ConductorsTadaaki Otaka
Set List'Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis', Vaughan Williams,
'These Things Shall Be', Ireland
INTERVAL
'A Village Romeo and Juliet - The Walk to the Paradise Garden', Delius,
'Belshazzar's Feast', Walton
Performance NotesTadaaki Otaka, a notable enthusiast of British music, opens with Vaughan Williams’s much loved classic before revisiting a BBC commission that has fallen into neglect in the half-century since its composer’s death: Ireland’s These Things Shall Be is a mini-oratorio with a utopian text.

The massed choirs and the commanding bass baritone of former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Jonathan Lemalu return after the interval to animate Walton’s brazen Old Testament tale, but first we hear from another anniversary composer, here at his most poignant.

Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and filmed for BBC Four television.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2012/58),
Programme (RAHE/1/2012/81),
Handbill (RAHE/6/2012/39),
Poster (RAHE/2/2012/24)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2012/81BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 23 - Williams, Ireland, Delius and Walton31 July 2012
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work7673BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/894British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Chorus; 1928-; British amateur chorus
DS/UK/1019British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC National Orchestra of Wales; 1935-; Welsh orchestra
DS/UK/1022British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC National Chorus of Wales; 1970s-; Welsh choir
DS/UK/288Williams; Ralph Vaughan (12 October 1872-26 August 1958); OM; English composer
DS/UK/993Delius; [delete] Frederick Theodore Albert (1862-1934); English classical composer
DS/UK/1072Lemalu; Jonathan (1976-); New Zealand bass-baritone
DS/UK/1071Otaka; Tadaaki (1947-); CBE; Japanese conductor
DS/UK/1073London Brass; 1986-; English classical chamber brass group
DS/UK/1074Ireland; John Nicholson (1879-1962); English composer
DS/UK/1075Walton; Sir; William Turner (1902-1983); OM; English composer
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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