Prom 14 - 25.07.17: Vaughan Williams & Holst

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

18:30 Tuesday 25 July 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 9 in E minor
Gustav Holst: The Planets

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson conductor
CBSO Youth Chorus (female voices)


Proms favourite, John Wilson, makes his first appearance at the Proms as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's new Associate Guest Conductor. Here he swaps Hollywood and Broadway classics for another of his personal passions: the great British symphonic classics. Holst's galactic suite conjures up the epic scope of a movie blockbuster in luminous music of infinite vistas, while Vaughan Williams's enigmatic final symphony also revels in an augmented sound-world: it's a piece Wilson sees as a suitably radical counterpart to The Planets.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

VW 9 has been a forum favourite ever since its last Proms outing.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

VW 9 has been a forum favourite ever since its last Proms outing.

- and even longer, for Edgey at least.

[mrbouffant]

Here he swaps Hollywood and Broadway classics for another of his personal passions: the great British symphonic classics.

Looking forward to this one very much - hopefully I will get a chance to catch JW's ear and persuade him to give us an Arnold cycle over the next few years, culminating in the centenary celebrations in 2021 !!

[edashtav]

18:30 Tuesday 25 July 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 9 in E minor
Gustav Holst: The Planets

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson conductor
CBSO Youth Chorus (female voices)


Proms favourite, John Wilson, makes his first appearance at the Proms as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's new Associate Guest Conductor. Here he swaps Hollywood and Broadway classics f or another of his personal passions: the great British symphonic classics. Holst's galactic suite conjures up the epic scope of a movie blockbuster in luminous music of infinite vistas, while Vaughan Williams's enigmatic final symphony also revels in an augmented sound-world: it's a piece Wilson sees as a suitably radical counterpart to The Planets.

Phew! "Galactic" is "bigging it up", Alpie!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Phew! "Galactic" is "bigging it up", Alpie!

It was lifted from the Radio 3 website, where "bigging it up" is commonplace. Everything is fantastic, amazing, epic, fabulous, superlative, the best, etc.

[pastoralguy]

Looking forward to this one very much - hopefully I will get a chance to catch JW's ear and persuade him to give us an Arnold cycle over the next few years, culminating in the centenary celebrations in 2021 !!

Any chance you could put a word in for George Lloyd...?!

[BBMmk2]

Looking forward to this Prom. It's taken me a long time to really know the RVW9. But now it's become part and parcel of the great RVW canon of symphonies.

[edashtav]

It was lifted from the Radio 3 website, where "bigging it up" is commonplace. Everything is fantastic, amazing, epic, fabulous, superlative, the best, etc.

Point taken but would have been easier to appreciate had you chosen to use quotation marks.

[Pulcinella]

Point taken but would have been easier to appreciate had you chosen to use quotation marks.

It's pretty much what's in the Proms Guide too.
Verbatim from
Here he swaps
in fact.
Slightly different wording before that in the guide, merely to tell us that he's returning later in the season.

[teamsaint]

Looking forward to this one very much - hopefully I will get a chance to catch JW's ear and persuade him to give us an Arnold cycle over the next few years, culminating in the centenary celebrations in 2021 !!

Excellent plan, Mr B, good luck with it.

[pastoralguy]

Am listening to VW no.9 just now. I don't recognise any of it!

Boult conducting The LPO on Everest. (The record label not the mountain...)

Very wide dynamic range in this recording.

[EdgeleyRob]

Am listening to VW no.9 just now. I don't recognise any of it!

Boult conducting The LPO on Everest. (The record label not the mountain...)

Very wide dynamic range in this recording.

Well it is the pinnacle of the symphonic repertoire

[pastoralguy]

Well it is the pinnacle of the symphonic repertoire

I have to say that I listened to it twice and I couldn't make anything out of it.

[pastoralguy]

Well it is the pinnacle of the symphonic repertoire

I have to say that I listened to it twice and I couldn't make anything out of it.