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Proms at Great Yarmouth

Live from the Hippodrome Circus, Anna-Maria Helsing conducts the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra in Vaughan Williams, Walton and a new commission from local composer Sarah Rodgers.

From the Hippodrome Circus, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra and conductor Anna-Maria Helsing play popular music by Walton, Coates and Vaughan Williams, including his perennial favourite Lark Ascending featuring violinist Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, and a new commission written specially for this concert from local composer Sarah Rodgers.

Part 1 is broadcast live. Part 2 will follow the evening Prom from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

PART 1
Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps
Coates Dancing Nights: Concert Valse
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Sarah Rodgers Seascapes (Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ commission, world premiere)
Walton Crown Imperial
Stravinsky Circus Polka
Rodgers Carousel Waltz

Nathaniel Anderson-Frank (violin)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra
Conductor Anna-Maria Helsing

The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra presents a programme of orchestral favourites at Great Yarmouth’s Hippodrome. Whirligig waltzes from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel and from Khachaturian’s ballet Masquerade set things spinning. Written for a dance spectacle featuring 50 elephants, Stravinsky’s Circus Polka brings all the colour and wit of the big top, reflecting the Hippodrome’s original purpose as a circus venue. As well as a new commission from British composer Sarah Rodgers, the programme features pieces by two earlier towering figures of English music: Walton’s stirring coronation march Crown Imperial and Vaughan Williams’s ever-popular soaring piece for solo violin and orchestra, The Lark Ascending.

1 hour, 29 minutes

Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Wasps - Aristophanic Suite (From Incidental Music) ; No.1; Overture

    Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Anna-Maria Helsing.
  • Eric Coates

    Dancing Nights - Concert Waltz

    Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Anna-Maria Helsing.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Anna-Maria Helsing.
  • Sarah Rodgers

    Seascapes

    Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Anna-Maria Helsing.
  • William Walton

    Crown Imperial - Coronation March

    Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Anna-Maria Helsing.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Circus Polka

    Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Anna-Maria Helsing.
  • Richard Rodgers

    Carousel - Musical ; Carousel Waltz

    Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Anna-Maria Helsing.

Broadcast

  • Fri 8 Sep 2023 18:00

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