BBC Proms 2020 Season - Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 4, 5 and 6 [2012] (320kbps .mp3)

BBC Proms 2020 Season - Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 4, 5 and 6 [2012] (320kbps .mp3)


In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. At the 2012 season Andrew Manze tackled three very different, powerful symphonies by Vaughan Williams which, whatever their own emotional back-stories, may still be seen as chronicling our national life in troubled times. While he was Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Manze conducted all nine Vaughan Williams symphonies, commenting: "Vaughan Williams is one of those composers some people have fixed ideas about… I’m on a bit of a mission to rehabilitate him in people’s minds as an important figure in the music-making of this country".

01. Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4 in F minor
01a. Introduction to the Vaughan Williams Prom
02. Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5 in D major
02a. Outro to Vaughan Williams, Symphony No. 4 intro to No. 5
02b. Interval - interview with Andrew Manze
03. Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 6 in E minor


BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Manze (conductor)


Presented by Hannah French

(From BBC Proms 2012, 16 August)