“Rule, Britannia” on tonight’s “New York Philharmonic This Week”

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. It’s an all-British program with Vaughan Williams’ “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis” and his “Fantasia on Green Sleeves”. Also on the program Elgar’s Cockaigne Overture” and Holst’s “The Planets”.  

Monday January 21: “The New York Philharmonic This Week” (NYP 19-17)

“Rule, Britannia” (repeat of NYP 18-27)

Elgar: Cockaigne Overture; Leonard Bernstein, conductor

Tallis: Why fum’th in Fight… (excerpt); The Sixteen/Harry Christophers

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Green Sleeves; Leonard Bernstein, conductor

Britten: Agnus Dei & Libera Me from the War Requiem; Kurt Masur, conductor; Carol Vannes, soprano; Jerry Hadley, tenor; Thomas Hampson, baritone; Westminster Choir; American Boychoir

Holst: The Planets; Zubin Mehta, conductor; New York Choral Artists