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Great British Classics

Live at the Âé¶¹Éç Proms: The Âé¶¹Éç National Orchestra of Wales, The Âé¶¹Éç Singers & Nil Venditti perform a John Rutter premiere and violinist Liya Petrova joins for The Lark Ascending.

Live at the Âé¶¹Éç Proms: The Âé¶¹Éç National Orchestra of Wales, The Âé¶¹Éç 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 (Âé¶¹Éç 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 Âé¶¹Éç National Orchestra of Wales
The Âé¶¹Éç 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’.

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Tue 5 Aug 2025 19:00

Music Played

  • William Walton

    Crown Imperial - Coronation March

    Orchestra: Âé¶¹Éç National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: Liya Petrova. Orchestra: Âé¶¹Éç National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Isle Of Beauty

    Conductor: Nil Venditti. Choir: Âé¶¹Éç Singers.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    The Evening Star

    Choir: Âé¶¹Éç Singers. Conductor: Nil Venditti.
  • Benjamin Britten

    4 Sea Interludes Op.33a

    Orchestra: Âé¶¹Éç National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.
  • William Mathias

    A Dance Overture (Dawns Agored) Op.16

    Orchestra: Âé¶¹Éç National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.
  • John Rutter

    Bird Songs

    Orchestra: Âé¶¹Éç National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti. Choir: Âé¶¹Éç Singers.
  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    The Rustling Of Grass Op.7

    Conductor: Nil Venditti. Choir: Âé¶¹Éç Singers.
  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    The Shepherd

    Orchestra: Âé¶¹Éç National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti. Choir: Âé¶¹Éç Singers.
  • John Rutter

    Bird Songs

    Orchestra: Âé¶¹Éç National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti. Choir: Âé¶¹Éç Singers.
  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    The Rustling Of Grass Op.7

    Conductor: Nil Venditti. Choir: Âé¶¹Éç Singers.
  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    The Shepherd

    Orchestra: Âé¶¹Éç National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti. Choir: Âé¶¹Éç Singers.
  • Grace Williams

    Elegy

    Orchestra: Âé¶¹Éç National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.
  • Edward Elgar

    Variations On An Original Theme ('Enigma') Op.36

    Orchestra: Âé¶¹Éç National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Nil Venditti.
  • Oliver Knussen

    Flourish with Fireworks, Op.22

    Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Oliver Knussen.
    • DG.
  • Béla Bartók

    Romanian Folk Dances Sz.56

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Christian Rivet.

Broadcast

  • Tue 5 Aug 2025 19:00