Chris de Souza introduces a concert given last month in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, featuring a rarely performed work by Constant Lambert, an overture by Vaughan Williams and a concerto by Walton. Lambert studied at the Royal College of Music at the same time as Vaughan Williams in the twenties. Summer's Last
Will and Testament is a choral piece that uses words from Thomas Nashe 's masque about London during the plague years and is based upon Elizabethan dance forms.
Philip Dukes (viola), Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Sakari Oramo
Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps Walton Viola Concerto
Lambert Summer's Last Will and Testament