Historians Saul David and Laura Rowe talk about the causes and effects of the First World War and the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, ahead of a performance of the Lament written by Frank Bridge as a memorial.
Join professional musicians for a family-friendly introduction to this evening's Prom. Bring your instrument and join in!
A concert from Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields includes Mendelssohn’s charming A Midsummer Night’s Dream overture and Beethoven’s graceful Fourth Symphony. Bell himself is the soloist in Saint-Saëns’s Third Violin Concerto.
A concert from Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields includes Mendelssohn’s charming A Midsummer Night’s Dream overture and Beethoven’s graceful Fourth Symphony. Bell himself is the soloist in Saint-Saëns’s Third Violin Concerto.
Musicologist Kate Kennedy introduces Vaughan Williams’s 1936 Cantata.
The conflict of war runs through this concert by Edward Gardner and the ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Vaughan Williams’s beautiful cantata Dona nobis pacem and Lili Boulanger’s Pour les funerailles d’un soldat frame Elgar’s elegiac Cello Concerto.
The conflict of war runs through this concert by Edward Gardner and the ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Vaughan Williams’s beautiful cantata Dona nobis pacem and Lili Boulanger’s Pour les funerailles d’un soldat frame Elgar’s elegiac Cello Concerto.