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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: Great British Classics

Live at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales, The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers & Nil Venditti perform a John Rutter premiere and violinist Liya Petrova joins for The Lark Ascending.

Live at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales, The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers & Nil Venditti perform a John Rutter premiere and violinist Liya Petrova joins for The Lark Ascending.

Presented by Katie Derham, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Walton, arr Tausky: Coronation March ‘Crown Imperial’
S Coleridge-Taylor: The Lee Shore; Isle of Beauty; The Evening Star
A Coleridge-Taylor: The Shepherd
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Britten: Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’, Op 33a

c.8.30pm
Interval: The pianist and broadcaster David Owen Norris joins Katie Derham, live at the Royal Albert Hall, to discuss the components that makes music quintessentially British.

c.8.50pm
Mathias: Dance Overture
John Rutter: new work (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ commission, world premiere)
G Williams: Elegy for Strings
Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme, ‘Enigma’

Liya Petrova, violin
The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales
The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers
Nil Venditti, conductor

A celebration of Britain’s land- and sea-scapes. Hear the soaring flight of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending as well as the many moods of the North Sea as it meets Suffolk shingle in Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’.

Release date:

2 hours, 29 minutes

Broadcast

  • Tue 5 Aug 2025 19:30

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