Radio 3 in Concert: First Night of the Proms 2021

Live at BBC Proms: BBC SO and Singers, conductor Dalia Stasevska and organist Daniel Hyde play Vaughan Williams, Poulenc and Sibelius's Second Symphony. Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny. Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music. Poulenc: Organ Concerto. Interval: Georgia and Petroc look ahead to six weeks of exciting live music-making at the Proms. MacMillan: When Soft Voices Die. (BBC co-commission with Help Musicians: world premiere). Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D. Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano), Jess Dandy (contralto), Allan Clayton (tenor), Michael Mofidian (bass-baritone), Daniel Hyde (organ). BBC Singers. BBC Symphony Orchestra. Dalia Stasevska (conductor). 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