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19 Jul 2022, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2022 Prom 6: Vaughan Williams and Tippett – Full Fourths

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Prom 6: Vaughan Williams and Tippett – Full Fourths
19:00 Tue 19 Jul 2022 Royal Albert Hall
Two uncompromising landmarks of 20th-century British music, as Sir Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Vaughan Williams’s and Michael Tippett’s Fourth symphonies.
Two uncompromising landmarks of 20th-century British music, as Sir Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Vaughan Williams’s and Michael Tippett’s Fourth symphonies.

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British music: it isn’t always what you think. Written as Europe lurched towards war, Vaughan Williams’s volcanic Fourth Symphony is a mighty cry of protest and rage, expressed in music that burns itself into the soul. A generation later in the Cold War, Michael Tippett began his final symphony with the most primal of sounds – a human breath. This isn’t so much a symphony as a whole life, in all its rapture, its chaos and its teeming, tumultuous beauty. The BBC Philharmonic returns for its second Prom of the season to give both works their due under the ever-reliable baton of Sir Andrew Davis.

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