Evening Concert

The New York Philharmonic This Week

Music of British Composers
 

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on “W-I-L-L Classical” it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. You’ll hear Holst’s “The Planets”, and Vaughan Williams’ “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis” and the “Fantasia on Greensleeves”. Also on the program Elgar’s “Cockaigne Overture”.

Monday, August 11, 7:00 pm: The New York Philharmonic (NYP 25-47)

ELGAR: Cockaigne Overture. Leonard Bernstein, conductor

TALLIS: Why fum’th in Fight… (excerpt). The Sixteen

VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor

VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Green Sleeves

BRITTEN: Libera Me & Agnus Dei from the “War Requiem”. Kurt Masur, conductor; Carol Vaness, soprano;

Jerry Hadley, tenor; Thomas Hampson, baritone; Westminster Choir; American Boychoir

HOLST: The Planets. Zubin Mehta, conductor