Prom 16: Bruch, Strauss, Butterworth & V

Butterworth A Shropshire Lad (orchestral rhapsody) 12’ Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 8 in D minor 30’ interval Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor 25’ R. Strauss Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche 15’ Janine Jansen violin Hallé Mark Elder conductor A British half and a German half – performed by an orchestra founded by a German but with a distinguished reputation in British music. Now in its 150th-anniversary season the Hallé, under Mark Elder, performs Vaughan Williams’s ‘little’ Eighth Symphony –which this orchestra premiered in 1956.The poignantrhapsody by VW’s friend George Butterworth gains extra resonance in the light of the latter’s death in the First World War; it is introduced in tonight’s performance with a reading from the Housman poems that inspired it. Following her stirring performance of Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 at the Proms last year, Janine Jansen joins the Hallé for the popular First Violin Concerto by Bruch (with whom Vaughan Williams studied). And, to close, Richard Strauss’s colourful portrait of the scallywag Till Eulenspiegel. Tickets cannot be exchanged refunded or resold.