BBC Proms 2022 - Prom 2 - John Wilson conducts the Sinfonia of London (320kbps .mp3)

Live at the BBC Proms: John Wilson conducts the Sinfonia of London in music by Vaughan Williams, Walton and Elgar. They are joined by flautist Adam Walker for Huw Watkins's Flute Concerto.

Presented by Andrew McGregor, live at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

01. Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
01a. Introduction to Prom 2
02. Watkins, Huw - Flute Concerto
02a Introduction to Watkins’ Flute Concerto
03. Bax - Tintagel
03a. Introduction to Bax’s Tintagel
03b. Interval commentary ptI
04. Bax - Country-Tune
Performer: Eric Parkin.
ARNOLD BAX: PIANO MUSIC VOLUME 1: ERIC PARKIN. CHANDOS.
04a. Interval commentary ptII
Andrew McGregor is joined by Professor Fiona Stafford to reflect on how poets have constructed, expressed and represented what it means to be English, from the Tudor contemporaries of Thomas Tallis, via the Romantics, to the 20th century.
05. Finzi - A Young Man's Exhortation (Shortening Days)
Performer: Roger Vignoles. Singer: Mark Padmore.
WHO ARE THESE CHIDREN? AND OTHER SONGS. HYPERION. 6.
05a. Interval commentary ptIII
06. Vaughan Williams – Far from Eve and Morning (from On Wenlock Edge)
Tenor: Nicky Spence Piano: Julius Drake Piatti Quartet. Hyperion CDA68378
07. Walton - Partita for Orchestra
07a. Introduction to Walton’s Partita for Orchestra
08. Elgar - ‘Enigma’ Variations
08a. Introduction to Elgar’s ‘Enigma’ Variations
09. Coates, Eric – Summer Days Suite - At the Dance
09a. Outro to Enigma variations
Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
Adam Walker, flute
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson, conductor

British conductor John Wilson has long been a Proms favourite, but last year’s debut appearance of his new super-orchestra the Sinfonia of London caused a sensation. ‘Astonishing,’ wrote The Times. For The Spectator, this was ‘an orchestra so thrillingly alive with the sheer glory of it all that hearing them play felt like being a teenager in love’. Now Wilson and the Sinfonia are back, in an all-British programme that pairs much-loved classics by Elgar and Vaughan-Williams with Walton’s kaleidoscopic Partita, Bax’s stirring musical seascape and Huw Watkins’s spirited Flute Concerto, played by its dedicatee Adam Walker.