Royal Festival Hall
Philharmonia Orchestra
Resident at Southbank Centre
Thursday 22 May 2008, 7.30pm
Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony No.7 (Sinfonia antartica)
INTERVAL
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No.1 (A Sea Symphony)
Richard Hickoxconductor
Susan Grittonsoprano
Gerald
Finleybaritone
London Symphony Chorus
Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony was his first significant large-scale work, using text from the American poet and humanist Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. The Sinfonia antartica, composed over 50 years later, came about after Vaughan Williams had provided the soundtrack to Scott of the Antarctic, a film depicting the heroic age of exploration. This subject so inspired Vaughan Williams that he incorporated much of the evocative music into a symphony.
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