BBC Proms 2017, Prom 14: The Planets and Vaughan Williams (320kbp...

BBC Proms 2017, Prom 14: The Planets and Vaughan Williams (320kbps .mp3)

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor John Wilson, perform Holst's The Planets, with the CBSO Youth Chorus joining for the ethereal ending.

00. Introductory commentary
01. Vaughan Williams - Symphony No.9
02. John Wilson talks discusses The Planets
03. Holst - The Planets
04. Interval - Proms Extra, Vaughan Willams and Holst
Martin Handley talks to the musicologist Kate Kennedy and film director Tony Palmer about tonight's music, and the relationship between Vaughan Williams and Holst. Recorded earlier at the Imperial College Union.

CBSO Youth Chorus
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson, conductor

Proms favourite, John Wilson, makes his first appearance at the Proms as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's new Associate Guest Conductor. Here he swaps Hollywood and Broadway classics for another of his personal passions: the great British symphonic classics. Holst's galactic suite conjures up the epic scope of a movie blockbuster in luminous music of infinite vistas, while Vaughan Williams's enigmatic final symphony also revels in an augmented sound-world: it's a piece Wilson sees as a suitably radical counterpart to The Planets.

Broadcast: 25 July 2017