Proms 2022 Prom 2: John Wilson conducts the Sinfonia of London - BBC Proms

16 Jul 2022, Royal Albert Hall

18:30 Sat 16 Jul 2022 Next Event

Prom 2: John Wilson conducts the Sinfonia of London

18:30 Sat 16 Jul 2022 Royal Albert Hall

Following their sensational concert debut at last year's Proms, John Wilson conducts his Sinfonia of London in an all-British programme of Elgar, Walton, Bax, Vaughan Williams and Huw Watkins.

Programme

- - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis(15 mins)
- - Huw Watkins
  - Flute Concerto(19 mins)
- - Arnold Bax
  - Tintagel(14 mins)
- - interval
- - William Walton
  - Partita for Orchestra(15 mins)
- - Edward Elgar
  - ‘Enigma’ Variations(29 mins)

Performers

Adam Walker
flute
flute
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

British conductor John Wilson has long been a Proms favourite, but last year’s debut appearance of his new super-orchestra the Sinfonia of London caused a sensation. ‘Astonishing,’ wrote The Times. For The Spectator, this was ‘an orchestra so thrillingly alive with the sheer glory of it all that hearing them play felt like being a teenager in love’. Now Wilson and the Sinfonia are back, in an all-British programme that pairs much-loved classics by Elgar and Vaughan-Williams with Walton’s kaleidoscopic Partita, Bax’s stirring musical seascape and Huw Watkins’s spirited Flute Concerto, played by its dedicatee Adam Walker.

Recorded for broadcast on BBC Four on Sunday 17 July