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BBC Proms: 2020: Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 4, 5 and 6

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Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 4, 5 and 6

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BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2020, Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 4, 5 and 6

A Vaughan Williams triple bill. Andrew Manze conducts Symphonies No s 4, 5 and 6.

Part of Andrew Manze’s extraordinary re-evaluation of the complete Vaughan Williams's symphonies with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. At the 2012 season Andrew Manze tackled three very different, powerful symphonies by Vaughan Williams which, whatever their own emotional back-stories, may still be seen as chronicling our national life in troubled times. While he was Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Manze conducted all nine Vaughan Williams symphonies, commenting: "Vaughan Williams is one of those composers some people have fixed ideas about… I’m on a bit of a mission to rehabilitate him in people’s minds as an important figure in the music-making of this country".

Presented by Hannah French

7.30pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F minor  
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D major  

c.8.50pm
Interval

c.9.05pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6 in E minor 

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Manze (conductor)

(From BBC Proms 2012, 16 August)

BBC Proms: 2020

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