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Proms 2018 Prom 41: Edward Gardner conducts Elgar & Vaughan Williams

Prom 41
Prom 41: Edward Gardner conducts Elgar & Vaughan Williams
20:00 Sun 12 Aug 2018 Royal Albert Hall
The conflict of war runs through this concert by Edward Gardner and the 成人论坛 Symphony Orchestra. Vaughan Williams鈥檚 beautiful cantata Dona nobis pacem and Lili Boulanger鈥檚 Pour les funerailles d鈥檜n soldat frame Elgar鈥檚 elegiac Cello Concerto.
The conflict of war runs through this concert by Edward Gardner and the 成人论坛 Symphony Orchestra. Vaughan Williams鈥檚 beautiful cantata Dona nobis pacem and Lili Boulanger鈥檚 Pour les funerailles d鈥檜n soldat frame Elgar鈥檚 elegiac Cello Concerto.

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War casts its long shadow over this Prom given by Edward Gardner and the 成人论坛 Symphony Orchestra and Chorus 鈥 part of this season鈥檚 musical survey suggested by the centenary of the end of the First World War.

A precursor to Britten鈥檚 War Requiem (see Prom 72), Vaughan Williams鈥檚 cantata Dona nobis pacem is a heartbreakingly beautiful exploration of the violence of war, its expansive lyricism a natural foil for the compressed drama of Lili Boulanger鈥檚 choral miniature Pour les fun茅railles d鈥檜n soldat.

Elgar鈥檚 much-loved Cello Concerto, composed in the wake of the conflict, completes this emotive concert, with French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras as soloist.

Broadcast on 成人论坛 Four on Sunday 2 September

Image: Sophie Bevan 漏 Sussie-Ahlburg