This event provides priority access for members of the RVW Society to best seats in the top two price brackets with a special Society discount of 15% off and no booking fee, and the option to purchase tickets to a VIP reception in the Fountain Room at the Barbican. For the exclusive Society price of £6 per head, members are invited to attend the reception before the concert and during the interval, and will also receive a complimentary concert programme as well as drinks.
Priority booking for Society members until 14th February 2022 and all tickets thereafter subject to availability. Reception numbers are limited.
You can see the Barbican seating plan on their website for this event - the tickets we have will show as unavailable - but you will be able to see where they are in the auditorium.
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2022/event/city-of-london-choirrpo-vaughan-williams-150th-anniversary
Vaughan Williams 150th year: Sea Symphony
Vivid depictions of the sea, virtuosic piano lines, and lavish musical forces: the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and City of London Choir celebrate 150 years since Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth.
The RPO take off with Vaughan Williams’s Overture to The Wasps, an early nod to both folk music and Ravel, both huge influences on his writing. Then, journey to East Anglia and his vivid depiction of the Norfolk coastline. Pianist Mark Bebbington ends the first half with a flourish, taking centre-stage as soloist in a very rare performance of Vaughan Williams’s unusual Fantasia on the Old 104th Psalm Tune.
And finally, Vaughan Williams in full and mighty force, in his well-loved restless, capricious and majestic Sea Symphony, led by star soloists Roderick Williams and Sophie Bevan.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Overture to 'The Wasps'
Norfolk Rhapsody No.1
Fantasia (quasi variazione) on the ‘Old 104th’ Psalm Tune
A Sea Symphony
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Hilary Davan Wetton - conductor
City of London Choir
Sophie Bevan - soprano
Roderick Williams - baritone
Mark Bebbington - piano
