BBC Proms 2021 - Vaughan Williams, Respighi and Mendelssohn ( 320kbps .mp3)

Live at BBC Proms: RPO conducted by Vasily Petrenko with Japanese violinist Sayaka Shoji in Respighi’s vivacious Concerto gregoriano.

01. Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
01a. Introduction to the Vaughan Williams, Respighi and Mendelssohn prom
02. Respighi - Concerto Gregoriano
02a. Interview with Sayaka Shoji
02b. Interval - Music and the Reformation
Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch discusses the role of music in the Reformation and how the English tradition differs from the Continental.
03. Ysaÿe - Sarabande from 4th sonata for solo violin (encore)
04. Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 5 in D major, 'Reformation’

Sayaka Shoji, violin
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko

Conductor Vasily Petrenko appears for the first time at the Proms in his new role as Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. They are joined by Japanese violinist Sayaka Shoji for Respighi’s Concerto gregoriano – a spiritual serenade in which the soloist becomes a wordless cantor, whose plainsong-inspired melodies soar over the orchestra. Two more tributes to the musical past complete the programme: Vaughan Williams’s haunting Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis takes inspiration from Tudor polyphony, while Mendelssohn’s youthful ‘Reformation’ Symphony climaxes in Martin Luther’s stirring chorale ‘A mighty fortress is our God’.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley


First broadcast:  4 August 2021
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