BBC Concert Orchestra

Ian Skelly presents a concert live from Watford Colosseum conducted by the orchestra's principal guest conductor Anna-Maria Helsing. They are joined by singer Clare Teal, and leader Nathaniel Anderson-Frank plays Vaughan Williams's ever-popular Lark Ascending. The concert also features light music by Eric Coates from the early days of the BBC and there's music by the orchestra's former associate composers Guy Barker and Anne Dudley, including the first performance of a suite from her film score for Elle. Plus music from a winner of the BBC Young Composer Competition.

Coates: The Merrymakers
Anne Dudley: Musique d’Elle (first performance)
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

INTERVAL

Arnold: Beckus the Dandipratt
Xia Leon Sloane: brink
Rodgers and Hammerstein: It might as well be spring
Artie Butler, arr Jonny Mandel: Here’s To Life
Wayne Shorter, arr Guy Barker: Nefertiti
Coates: London Suite (London Every Day)