| Orchestra or Band | BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra |
| Set List | 'Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis', Vaughan Williams,
'Symphony No.9', Mahler |
| Performance Notes | In the second of his two concerts with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles conducts a programme that looks to the past a musical meditation on history, death and loss that still speaks powerfully, 100 years after the start of the First World War.
Written at the bleakest point in Mahler's life, following the death of his daughter, his wife's illness and the diagnosis of the disease that would quickly kill him, the Ninth Symphony gazes bitterly into the abyss, before bidding farewell to the world in its elegiac final movement.
The ecstatic string-writing of Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis looks back to his musical forebears, reimagining an English identity that would so soon find itself under threat.
There was no interval.
The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3. |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2014/53),
Programme (RAHE/1/2014/76),
Posters (RAHE/2/2014/41),
Proms Mini-Guide,
Digital Photographs |