Quintessentially English
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This event took place on Tuesday 9 April 2019.
- Tuesday 9 April 2019
- Cadogan Hall
Quintessentially English
Tue 9 Apr 2019
Need to know
Repertoire
- Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden
- Walton Suite From Henry V
- Vaughan Williams Symphony No.5
Features
- Mark Wigglesworth Conductor
- Samuel West Narrator
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Mark Wigglesworth, a notable interpreter of British music, opens the programme of English music with Delius’ gentle tone-poem The Walk to the Paradise Garden. Beginning with beautiful dream-like wind solos, the tranquil mood is soon shifted when Walton’s Suite from Henry V conjures stirring battle scenes, for which Olivier Award winner Samuel West* will narrate. Composed for Laurence Olivier’s remarkable 1944 film Henry V, this imaginative score fuses romantic tenderness with medieval beauty in a whirl of pure cinematic excitement. Vaughan Williams’ Fifth Symphony rounds out the concert with some of his most serene music – its pastoral tranquillity is set again against the backdrop of 1940s war-torn Europe.
*Subject to other professional commitments.