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Looks like it’s Bluntisham, Cambridgeshire, there’s a behind the scenes picture on www.bhp-pc.org.uk/memories/ngg...
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Nearly as terrifying as that Bach head covered in Bees on the 21st Century Bach titles
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I’ve now escaped the great herd migration to South Kensington tube, and A London Symphony was wonderful - the second movement especially cemented that quintessential mysterious VW sound world that we’d hear again in his symphonies to come
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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
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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
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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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BBC Symphony Orchestra are on stage and the Hall’s pretty packed, great to see a full house. Catch it on Radio 3 at 7:30