Proms-Music-Vault's video: BBC Proms 2021 : MacMillan Sibelius

First Night of the Proms 2021 30.07.2021, 07.30pm, Royal Albert Hall The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska kick off the 2021 Proms with a programme featuring Vaughan Williams, Poulenc and a world premiere by Sir James MacMillan. Programme Sir James MacMillan When Soft Voices Die (8 mins) BBC co-commission with Help Musicians: world premiere Jean Sibelius Symphony No.2 in D major (43 mins) Performers Elizabeth Llewellyn soprano Jess Dandy contralto Allan Clayton tenor Michael Mofidian bass-baritonebass Daniel Hyde organ BBC Singers BBC Symphony Orchestra Dalia Stasevska conductor About This Event Dalia Stasevska leads a First Night featuring Vaughan Williams’s ravishing Serenade to Music – written to celebrate Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood’s 50 years on the podium and premiered by him at his jubilee concert in the Royal Albert Hall in 1938. Sir James MacMillan offers a new companion piece to the Serenade and Poulenc’s Organ Concerto is a piquant foil, showcasing the instrument in a vivid play of light and shade.