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BBC Proms: 2018

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BBC Proms: 2018: Prom 41: Edward Gardner conducts the BBC SO and Chorus in Vaughan Williams, Boulanger and Elgar.

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12/08/2018

Prom 41: Edward Gardner conducts the BBC SO and Chorus in Vaughan Williams, Boulanger and Elgar.

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BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2018, Prom 41: Edward Gardner conducts the BBC SO and Chorus in Vaughan Williams, Boulanger and Elgar.

Edward Gardner, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform Vaughan Williams and Elgar.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Edward Gardner in Vaughan Williams and Boulanger, and Elgar's Cello Concerto with Jean-Guihen Queyras.

Live at BBC Proms: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Edward Gardner in Vaughan Williams and Lili Boulanger. Soloist Jean-Guihen Queyras in Elgar's Cello Concerto.


Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London 
Presented by Martin Handley

Lili Boulanger: Pour les funerailles d'un soldat
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor Op.85

c.20.30 Interval 
Proms Plus 
Musicologist Kate Kennedy and Professor AC Grayling introduce Vaughan Williams' 1936 cantata Dona nobis pacem. Hosted by Hannah Conway and recorded earlier this evening at the Imperial College Union, London.

c.20.55
Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem

Alexandre Duhamel (baritone)
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
Sophie Bevan (soprano)
Neal Davies (bass-baritone)
BBC Symphony Chorus 
BBC Symphony Orchestra 
Edward Gardner (conductor)


War casts its long shadow over this Prom given by Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus - part of this season's musical survey suggested by the centenary of the end of the First World War.

A precursor to Britten's War Requiem (see Prom 72), Vaughan Williams's cantata Dona nobis pacem is a heartbreakingly beautiful exploration of the violence of war, its expansive lyricism a natural foil for the compressed drama of Lili Boulanger's choral miniature Pour les funérailles d'un soldat.

Elgar's much-loved Cello Concerto, composed in the wake of the conflict, completes this emotive concert, with French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras as soloist.

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All broadcasts from the 2018 season of the BBC Proms.

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