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The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

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Razia Iqbal

Petroc Trelawny

Serena Cross

Sian Lloyd

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Manze

Allan Clayton

Roderick Williams

BBC Proms: 2014: Friday Night at the Proms: In Memoriam WWI

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22/08/2014

Friday Night at the Proms: In Memoriam WWI

2014

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Works by Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth, Frederick Septimus Kelly and Rudi Stephan.

Vaughan Williams's Pastoral Symphony, George Butterworth's settings of AE Housman poems, Frederick Septimus Kelly's Elegy for Rupert Brooke and Rudi Stephan's Music for Orchestra.

Razia Iqbal and Petroc Trelawny present a special concert drawing together four composers whose lives and music were impacted by WW1. 

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Manze performs Vaughan Williams's post-war composition, the elegiac Pastoral Symphony. 

The three promising young composers also featured in the concert were all killed in the war and have left us poignant evocations of lost lands and innocence destroyed - George Butterworth's settings of poems from AE Housman's nostalgic collection A Shropshire Lad; Australian-born Frederick Septimus Kelly's Elegy for his friend Rupert Brooke; and, from across the battle lines, German composer Rudi Stephan's Music for Orchestra.

BBC Proms: 2014

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