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12 Aug 2013, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2013 Prom 39: Holst, Nishat Khan & Vaughan Williams

Prom 39: Holst, Nishat Khan & Vaughan Williams
Prom 39: Holst, Nishat Khan & Vaughan Williams
19:00 Mon 12 Aug 2013 Royal Albert Hall
David Atherton conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales in Holst’s tone-poem Indra, the world premiere of Nishat Khan’s new Sitar Concerto No. 1 and Vaughan Williams’s bittersweet portrait of the capital’s parks and pavements, A London Symphony.
David Atherton conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales in Holst’s tone-poem Indra, the world premiere of Nishat Khan’s new Sitar Concerto No. 1 and Vaughan Williams’s bittersweet portrait of the capital’s parks and pavements, A London Symphony.

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Two visions of India and a portrait of London. Gustav Holst’s fascination with Sanksrit literature found early expression in the 1903 tone-poem Indra, composed before the first set of his Hymns from the Rig Veda (see PCM 5). David Atherton conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales in this and the world premiere of Nishat Khan’s Sitar Concerto No. 1, with the composer as soloist.

First performed in 1914, Vaughan Williams’s A London Symphony evokes the chimes of Westminster, a chill November in Bloomsbury and the bright lights of the Strand in a city that would soon be scarred by war.

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