Proms 2021 20th-Century British Film Music - BBC Proms

2 Sep 2021, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Thu 2 Sep 2021 Next Event

20th-Century British Film Music

19:30 Thu 2 Sep 2021 Royal Albert Hall

Spend a night at the movies with a sequence of classic British film scores, brought to life by the BBC Concert Orchestra and Principal Conductor Bramwell Tovey.

Programme

- - Doreen Carwithen
  - The Men of Sherwood Forest – overture(4 mins)arr. Philip Lane
- - Malcolm Arnold
  - Hobson’s Choice – Concert Suite(17 mins)arr. C. Palmer
- - Alan Rawsthorne
  - The Cruel Sea(5 mins)Main titles and Nocturne
- - William Walton
  - Escape Me Never Suite(10 mins)
- - interval
- - Elisabeth Lutyens
  - The Skull(5 mins)excerpts
- - William Alwyn
  - Odd Man Out(17 mins)Police Chase; Nemesis
- - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  - Three Portraits from ‘The England of Elizabeth’(17 mins)adapt. Muir Mathieson, Philip Lane
- - Malcolm Arnold
  - The Belles of St Trinian’s – Comedy Suite(8 mins)arr. C. Palmer

Performers

BBC Concert Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

English composers of the 20th century could rival their counterparts across the Atlantic when it came to creating some of the most memorable cinematic moments of the century. Spend a night at the movies with a sequence of classic British film scores by composers including Malcolm Arnold, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Doreen Carwithen, brought to life by the BBC Concert Orchestra and Principal Conductor Bramwell Tovey.

There will be one interval

Part of

Proms 2021