BBC Proms 2012 - Vaughan Williams, Ireland, Delius & Walton

Prom 23: Vaughan Williams, Ireland, Delius & Walton , , Royal Albert Hall An all-British Prom including Vaughan Williams’s spacious ‘Tallis’ Fantasia and Walton’s riotous choral Belshazzar’s Feast. Programme Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (16 mins) John Ireland These Things Shall Be (22 mins) Frederick Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden (10 mins) William Walton Belshazzar’s Feast (36 mins) Performers Jonathan Lemalu baritone, bass-baritone London Brass BBC Symphony Chorus BBC National Chorus of Wales BBC National Orchestra of Wales Tadaaki Otaka conductor About this event Tadaaki Otaka, a notable enthusiast of British music, opens with Vaughan Williams’s much loved classic before revisiting a BBC commission that has fallen into neglect in the half-century since its composer’s death: Ireland’s These Things Shall Be is a mini-oratorio with a utopian text. The massed choirs and the commanding bass baritone of former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Jonathan