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Great British Classics

Getting Radio 3’s Proms Marathon Monday out of the blocks, Ian Skelly introduces the first in a series of Proms highlights from the 2025 season so far.

Getting Radio 3’s Proms Marathon Monday out of the blocks, Ian Skelly introduces the first in a series of Proms highlights from the 2025 season so far:

Great British Classics (Tuesday 5 August)
Presented by Katie Derham from the Royal Albert Hall in 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

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

Liya Petrova (violin)
BBC Singers
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Nil Venditti (conductor)

2 hours, 14 minutes

Last on

Mon 25 Aug 202509:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • William Walton

    Crown Imperial

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Isle of Beauty

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Nil Venditti.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    The Evening Star

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Nil Venditti.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.

  • William Mathias

    Dance Overture

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.

  • John Rutter

    Bird Songs

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti. Choir: BBC Singers.

  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    The Rustling of Grass

    Performer: BBC Singers. Conductor: Nil Venditti.

  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    The Shepherd

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti. Choir: BBC Singers.

  • Grace Williams

    Elegy for Strings

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.

  • Edward Elgar

    Enigma Variations

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.

Broadcast

  • Mon 25 Aug 202509:30
    BBC Radio 3