BBC Proms
Season 59 Episode 22 - Prom 66: Sir Colin Davies conductions the Juilliard Orchestra
Colin Davis conducts students from London's Royal Academy of Music and New York's Juilliard School in tonight's live concert at the Royal Albert Hall, which begins with two wartime works. Aaron Copland's majestic Fanfare for the Common Man for brass and percussion was written in 1942 as a tribute to those fighting the Second World War. In contrast, Ralph Vaughan Williams's bleak Sixth Symphony from 1948 suggests a desolate postwar landscape. The programme concludes with what is perhaps Hector Berlioz's best-known work, the dazzling Symphonie Fantastique, in which the composer explores his real life obsession with a beautiful actress. With Charles Hazlewood.
Episodes in Season 59
First Night of the Proms Part One
First Night of the Proms Part Two
Prom 4: Richard Wagner - Die Walküre
Prom 5: Michael Berkeley, Benjamin Britten and Vaughan Williams
145 min