Proms 2024
20 Aug 2013, Royal Albert Hall
Previous Event
19:30 Tue 20 Aug 2013 Next Event

Proms 2013 Prom 51: Tippett, Britten & Elgar

Prom 51: Tippett, Britten & Elgar
Prom 51: Tippett, Britten & Elgar
19:30 Tue 20 Aug 2013 Royal Albert Hall
The Fanfare No. 5 from Tippett鈥檚 The Mask of Time opens tonight's survey of 20th-century greats with the London Symphony Orchestra and Ian Bostridge, from Tippett鈥檚 Concerto for Double String Orchestra and Britten鈥檚 Les illuminations to Elgar鈥檚 Second Symphony.
The Fanfare No. 5 from Tippett鈥檚 The Mask of Time opens tonight's survey of 20th-century greats with the London Symphony Orchestra and Ian Bostridge, from Tippett鈥檚 Concerto for Double String Orchestra and Britten鈥檚 Les illuminations to Elgar鈥檚 Second Symphony.

Programme

Performers

About this event

Venetian polychoral motets, Northumbrian bagpipe melodies and the blues can be heard in Tippett鈥檚 most popular orchestral work, completed, like Britten鈥檚 flamboyant sequence of Rimbaud settings, in 1939 and performed tonight by the London Symphony Orchestra.

Fanfare No. 5, from Tippett鈥檚 vast, humanist oratorio of 1980鈥�82, The Mask of Time, opens a concert that ends with Elgar's elegiac Second Symphony.

Please note this event contains an update to the concert programme from that in the 2013 麻豆约拍 Proms Guide.

Watch and listen to more music by Britten at the Proms.