BBC Proms 2019 - Williams - Serenade to Music & Brahms - Song of Destiny

Prom 35: Enigma Variations , , Royal Albert Hall Elgar’s ‘Enigma’ Variations provides both model and inspiration for a new set of variations by 14 living composers premiered here to mark conductor Martyn Brabbins’s 60th birthday. The concert also includes Vaughan Williams’s exquisite Serenade to Music. Programme Kalevi Aho Sally Beamish Harrison Birtwistle Richard Blackford Gavin Bryars Brett Dean Dai Fujikura Wim Henderickx Colin Matthews Anthony Payne John Pickard David Sawer Iris ter Schiphorst Judith Weir Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M. C. B.(30 mins) BBC commission: world premiere Ralph Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music (13 mins) Henry Wood Novelties: world premiere, 1938 Johannes Brahms Song of Destiny (18 mins) Performers Idunnu Münch mezzo-soprano William Morgan tenor Nadine Benjamin soprano David Ireland bass-baritone English National Opera Chorus BBC Singers BBC