BBC Proms 2019 Williams Serenade to Music Brahms Song of Destiny

Prom 35: Enigma Variations 7. 00pm, Royal Albert Hall Elgars Enigma Variations provides both model and inspiration for a new set of variations by 14 living composers premiered here to mark conductor Martyn Brabbinss 60th birthday. The concert also includes Vaughan Williamss exquisite Serenade to Music. Programme Kalevi Aho Sally Beamish Harrison Birtwistle Richard Blackford Gavin Bryars Brett Dean Dai Fujikura Wim Henderickx Colin Matthews Anthony Payne John Pickard David Sawer Iris ter Schiphorst Judith Weir Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M. C. B. (30 mins) BBC commission: world premiere Ralph Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music (13 mins) Henry Wood Novelties: world premiere, 1938 Johannes Brahms Song of Destiny (18 mins) Performers Idunnu Münch mezzosoprano William Morgan tenor Nadine Benjamin soprano David Ireland bassbaritone English National Opera Chorus BBC Singers BBC