BBC Proms 2018, Prom 41 Edward Gardner conducts the BBC SO and Chorus in Vaughan Williams, Boulanger and Elgar (320kbps .mp3)

Live at BBC Proms: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Edward Gardner in Vaughan Williams and Lili Boulanger. Soloist Jean-Guihen Queyras in Elgar's Cello Concerto.

War casts its long shadow over this Prom given by Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus - part of this season's musical survey suggested by the centenary of the end of the First World War.

A precursor to Britten's War Requiem (see Prom 72), Vaughan Williams's cantata Dona nobis pacem is a heartbreakingly beautiful exploration of the violence of war, its expansive lyricism a natural foil for the compressed drama of Lili Boulanger's choral miniature Pour les funérailles d'un soldat.

Elgar's much-loved Cello Concerto, composed in the wake of the conflict, completes this emotive concert, with French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras as soloist.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley

01. Lili Boulanger - Pour les funerailles d'un soldat
01i. Introduction to BBC Proms 2018 Prom 41
02. Elgar - Cello Concerto in E Minor Op.85
02i. Introduction to Elgar’s Cello Concerto
03. Dutilleux - Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher
04. Vaughan Williams - Dona nobis pacem
04i. Introduction to Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem

Alexandre Duhamel (baritone)
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
Sophie Bevan (soprano)
Neal Davies (bass-baritone)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)



05. Musicologist Kate Kennedy and Professor AC Grayling introduce Vaughan Williams' 1936 cantata Dona nobis pacem. Hosted by Hannah Conway and recorded earlier this evening at the Imperial College Union, London.