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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season - Prom 64: Vaughan Williams’s ‘A London Symphony’
Performance Date7 September 2025
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time11:00
Main PerformersArabella Steinbacher - violin
Orchestra or BandRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra
ConductorsVasily Petrenko
Set List'Pines of Rome', Respighi,
'Le boeuf sur le toit (version for violin and orchestra)', Milhaud,

INTERVAL

'Symphony No. 2 (A London Symphony)', Vaughan Williams
Performance NotesRome, Paris, London: Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra take us on a musical tour of Europe. Children play in the gardens of Rome's Villa Borghese, while a nightingale sings at night in high branches; Respighi’s sun-soaked outdoor portrait of Italy’s capital contrasts with both the smoky thrum and after-hours jazz rhythms of Milhaud’s Le boeuf sur le toit – a musical homage to Paris – and the impressionistic colours of Vaughan Williams’s A London Symphony, in which Big Ben’s chimes and a busker’s harmonica break through the urban bustle.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2025/30),
Programme (RAHE/1/2025/
Ticket Prices£9 - £115 (Promming tickets £8)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2025/91BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season - Prom 64: Vaughan Williams’s ‘A London Symphony’7 September 2025
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work13506BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season72
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/41Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO); 1946-; British orchestra
DS/UK/1277Petrenko; Vasily (1976-); Russian conductor
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