Richard Hickox conductor
Alina Ibragimova violin
Susan Gritton soprano
Gerald Finley baritone
London Symphony Chorus

Mendelssohn Overture, The Hebrides
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1
Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 1, A Sea Symphony

Susan Gritton and Gerald Finley join the Philharmonia’s Vaughan Williams series for a performance of the composer’s first significant large-scale orchestral work, A Sea Symphony. One of the best-known of a host of sea-related pieces being written around the same time, which included Elgar’s Sea Pictures and  Debussy’s La Mer, Vaughan Williams’s nautically-themed work has been described as “…a triumph of instinct over environment.”

6.15pm free pre-concert talk