Performances of Percy Grainger at BBC Proms

Sat 30 Aug 2025

• 11:00

  Folk Songs and Dances

  Royal Albert Hall

  Ryan Bancroft teams up with the wind, brass and percussion of the London Symphony Orchestra to perform folk-song arrangements by Vaughan Williams, Grainger and Arnold alongside Gunther Schuller’s eclectic trombone concerto

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  Ryan Bancroft teams up with the wind, brass and percussion of the London Symphony Orchestra to perform folk-song arrangements by Vaughan Williams, Grainger and Arnold alongside Gunther Schuller’s eclectic trombone concerto

  Programme

  • • • Ralph Vaughan Williams
      • English Folk Song Suite(14 mins)
    • • Gunther Schuller
      • Eine kleine Posaunenmusik(16 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Michael Tippett
      • Triumph: A paraphrase on music from ‘The Mask of Time’(15 mins)
    • • Malcolm Arnold
      • English Dances, Set No. 1(9 mins)(version for wind band)
    • • Percy Grainger
      • The Lads of Wamphray(9 mins)
    • • Trad.
      • Country Gardens(6 mins)arr. Percy Grainger
    • • Percy Grainger
      • A Lincolnshire Posy(16 mins)

  Performers

  • Peter Moore

    trombone
    trombone
  • London Symphony Orchestra

    wind, brass and percussion
    wind, brass and percussion
  • Ryan Bancroft

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Gunther Schuller
  • Michael Tippett
  • Malcolm Arnold
  • Percy Grainger
  • Trad.

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  Part of

  Proms 2025