BBC Proms 2023 - Proms at Great Yarmouth (320kbps. mp3)


From the Hippodrome Circus, the BBC 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.

PART 1
01. Vaughan Williams Overture - The Wasps
01a. Introduction to Proms at Great Yarmouth
02. Coates, Eric - Dancing Nights - Concert Valse
02a. Introduction to Coates’  Dancing Nights
03. Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
03a. Introduction to Vaughan Williams’ Lark Ascending
04. Rodgers, Sarah - Seascapes (BBC commission, world premiere)
04a. Discussion with Sarah Rodgers
05. Walton - Crown Imperial
06. Stravinsky - Circus Polka
06a. Introduction to Stravinsky’s Circus Polka
07. Rodgers - Carousel Waltz
08. Tarrodi, Andrea - Festive Overture
09. Lopez, Jimmy - Fiesta! for symphony orchestra
09a. Introduction to Lopez’s Fiesta!
10. Khachaturian - Masquerade Suite
10a. Discussion with Anna-Maria Helsing


Nathaniel Anderson-Frank (violin)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor Anna-Maria Helsing

The BBC 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.

Presented by Ian Skelly.

Broadcast: 8 September 2023