BBC Proms 2022

From the Royal Albert Hall, Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Vaughan Williams' Fourth Symphony and Tippett's Fourth Symphony. Presented by Tom McKinney. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 4 in F minor. Interval: Tom McKinney talks to composer William Mival about the significance of the two symphonies in tonight's Prom. Tippett: Symphony No 4. British music: it isn't always what you think. Written as Europe lurched towards the war, Vaughan Williams' volcanic Fourth Symphony is a might cry of protest and rage, expressed in music that burns itself into the soul. A generation later in the Cold War, Michael Tippett began his final symphony with the most primal of sounds - a human breath. This isn't so much a symphony as a whole life, in all its rapture, its chaos and its teeming, tumultuous beauty. BBC Philharmonic, Andrew Davis (conductor).