Performances of Ralph Vaughan Williams at BBC Symphony Orchestra

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

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  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

    (members from)
    (members from)
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra
  • Sakari Oramo

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Arthur Bliss
  • Felix Mendelssohn
  • Jean Sibelius
  • Errollyn Wallen
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

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