Great British Classics

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, The BBC Singers & Nil Venditti perform a John Rutter premiere and violinist Liya Petrova joins for The Lark Ascending.

Presented by Katie Derham, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Walton, arr Tausky: Coronation March ‘Crown Imperial’
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
S Coleridge-Taylor: Isle of Beauty; The Evening Star
Britten: Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’, Op 33a

c.8.30pm
Interval: The pianist and broadcaster David Owen Norris joins Katie Derham, live at the Royal Albert Hall, to discuss the components that makes music quintessentially British.

c.8.50pm
Mathias: Dance Overture
John Rutter: Bird Songs (BBC commission, world premiere)
A Coleridge-Taylor: The Shepherd; A Rustling of Grass (arr. Zoë Birtwhistle)
G Williams: Elegy for Strings
Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme, ‘Enigma’

Liya Petrova, violin
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales
The BBC Singers
Nil Venditti, conductor

A celebration of Britain’s land- and sea-scapes. Hear the soaring flight of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending as well as the many moods of the North Sea as it meets Suffolk shingle in Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’.