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BBC Proms: 2021: Vaughan Williams, Respighi and Mendelssohn

Vasily Petrenko

Vaughan Williams, Respighi and Mendelssohn

2021

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Live at the BBC Proms: Vasily Petrenko conducts RPO and violinist Sayaka Shoji.

Live at the BBC Proms: Vasily Petrenko condcuts the RPO, with Japanese violinist Sayaka Shoji, in Respighi’s vivacious Concerto gregoriano.

Live at BBC Proms: RPO conducted by Vasily Petrenko with Japanese violinist Sayaka Shoji in Respighi’s vivacious Concerto gregoriano.

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

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
c.7.45pm
Respighi: Concerto gregoriano

c.8.15pm
Live Interval: Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch discusses the role of music in the Reformation and how the English tradition differs from the Continental.  


c.8.40
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D major, 'Reformation’

Sayaka Shoji, violin
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko

Conductor Vasily Petrenko appears for the first time at the Proms in his new role as Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. They are joined by Japanese violinist Sayaka Shoji for Respighi’s Concerto gregoriano – a spiritual serenade in which the soloist becomes a wordless cantor, whose plainsong-inspired melodies soar over the orchestra. Two more tributes to the musical past complete the programme: Vaughan Williams’s haunting Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis takes inspiration from Tudor polyphony, while Mendelssohn’s youthful ‘Reformation’ Symphony climaxes in Martin Luther’s stirring chorale ‘A mighty fortress is our God’.

BBC Proms: 2021

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