BBC Proms 2022 - Prom 6 - Vaughan Williams and Tippett - Full Fourths (320kbps .mp3)

Live at the BBC Proms
Presented by Tom McKinney live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

01. Vaughan Williams - Symphony No.4 in F minor (30')
01a. Introduction to Vaughan Williams
01b. Interval commentary
During the interval, Tom McKinney talks to composer William Mival about the significance of the two symphonies in tonight’s Prom.
02. Tippett - Symphony No.4 (33')

British music: it isn't always what you think. Written as Europe lurched towards the war, Vaughan Williams's volcanic Fourth Symphony is a might cry of protest and rage, expressed in music that burns itself into the soul. A generation later in the Cold War, Michael Tippett began his final symphony with the most primal of sounds - a human breath. This isn't so much a symphony as a whole life, in all its rapture, its chaos and its teeming, tumultuous beauty.

BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Davis (conductor)

Broadcast: 19 July 2022