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Performances of Ralph Vaughan Williams at BBC Symphony Orchestra

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Fri 18 Jul 2025
- 18:45
  First Night of the Proms 2025
  Royal Albert Hall
  The 2025 First Night sees Mendelssohn’s ‘Hebrides’ Overture and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto featured alongside British classics from Bliss and Vaughan Williams, plus a world premiere from Master of the King’s Music Errollyn Wallen
  The 2025 First Night sees Mendelssohn’s ‘Hebrides’ Overture and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto featured alongside British classics from Bliss and Vaughan Williams, plus a world premiere from Master of the King’s Music Errollyn Wallen
  Programme
  Arthur Bliss
  Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood(2 mins)
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Overture ‘The Hebrides’ (‘Fingal’s Cave’)(10 mins)
  Jean Sibelius
  Violin Concerto in D minor(35 mins)
  interval
  Errollyn Wallen
  The Elements(10 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Sancta civitas(30 mins)
  Performers
  Lisa Batiashvili
  violin
  violin
  Caspar Singh
  tenor
  tenor
  Gerald Finley
  bass-baritone
  bass-baritone
  BBC Singers
  BBC Symphony Chorus
  London Youth Choirs
  ( from)
  ( from)
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Sakari Oramo
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Arthur Bliss
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Jean Sibelius
  Errollyn Wallen
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Part of
  Proms 2025 Proms on TV
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  Seats from £26 to £86 (plus booking fee)
  Seats from £26 to £86 (plus booking fee)
Fri 11 Apr 2025
- 19:30
  Oramo conducts Vaughan Williams
  Barbican, London
  England’s dreaming: Sakari Oramo rediscovers rare and wonderful British masterpieces by Vaughan Williams, Doreen Carwithen and Malcolm Arnold.
  England’s dreaming: Sakari Oramo rediscovers rare and wonderful British masterpieces by Vaughan Williams, Doreen Carwithen and Malcolm Arnold.
  Programme
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Serenade to Music(13 mins)
  Doreen Carwithen
  Concerto for Piano(31 mins)
  interval
  Malcolm Arnold
  Symphony No. 5(33 mins)
  Performers
  Sakari Oramo
  conductor
  conductor
  Alexandra Dariescu
  piano
  piano
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  BBC Singers
  Composers
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Doreen Carwithen
  Malcolm Arnold
  Part of
  BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2024-25 Barbican Season
Fri 24 Jan 2025
- 19:30
  Oramo conducts Mahler's Tenth and The Lark Ascending
  Barbican, London
  An evening-long meditation on life and the hereafter, devised by Sakari Oramo and featuring the UK premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s astonishing final masterpiece Hush.
  An evening-long meditation on life and the hereafter, devised by Sakari Oramo and featuring the UK premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s astonishing final masterpiece Hush.
  Programme
  Gustav Mahler
  Symphony No 10 – Adagio
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Toward the Unknown Region
  interval
  Kaija Saariaho
  HUSHBBC Co-Commission, UK Premiere
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  The Lark Ascending
  Performers
  Sakari Oramo
  conductor
  conductor
  Verneri Pohjola
  trumpet
  trumpet
  Igor Yuzefovich
  violin
  violin
  BBC Symphony Chorus
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Composers
  Gustav Mahler
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Kaija Saariaho
  Part of
  BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2024-25 Barbican Season