Well hello, thought I’d try Bluesky - and what a place to start at Prom 33: Elgar, Holst, Stanford and Vaughan Williams. Have wanted to hear A London Symphony live for years.
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Anyway they’re getting ready for the Vaughan Williams, a piece that it seems half the young composers in London had a hand in reconstructing when the score was lost in 1914
The Holst piece Hammersmith meanwhile I didn’t know, it’s essentially a tone poem, rather mercurial on first listening - I’d like to listen to that one again. Stanford was…very Stanford: his evocative orchestral seascape in Joy Shipmate Joy probably the most memorable
Well what a great first half! The concert is billed as “Titans of British Music” but could as easily have been called “portraits of London”. Elgar’s Cockaigne was at its raucous, dare I say almost camp best, and never fails to raise a smile - the trombones got a great cheer at the end
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