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Radio 3 in Concert: ... our valley is his golden cup...

... our valley is his golden cup...

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, ... our valley is his golden cup...

Mark Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Wagner.

Mark Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Wagner, Vaughan Williams and Elgar, reflecting on the past and looking towards the future.

From the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Presented by Tom McKinney

Recorded in September, this concert opened the BBC Philharmonic's 2022/23 season. A theme running through their current concerts is that of last works and conductor Mark Wigglesworth opens this concert with the Prelude to Wagner's final opera, Parsifal, the tale of an Arthurian knight's quest for the Holy Grail.  In his Second Symphony, Elgar expresses his search for certainty at a time of transition, personal turmoil and doubt.  A quotation from Shelley heads the score, "Rarely, rarely comest though, Spirit of Delight."  George Meredith's poem 'The Lark Ascending' sets the scene for Vaughan Williams's work of the same name; the lark isn't seeking the Holy Grail, but creating it through song, "And ever winging up and up, Our valley is our golden cup, And he the wine which overflows To lift us with him as he goes."
Violinist Zoe Beyers leads us on the journey.


Wagner: Parsifal: Prelude
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

8.05pm
Interval (CD)
British vocal and choral songs by Delius, Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Parry and Dilys Elwyn Edwards, inspired by British birds

8.25
Elgar: Symphony No.2


Zoe Beyers (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

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