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Ralph Vaughan Williams - World Premiere - The Future with RSNO and Martin Yates

When
Friday November 8, 2019 at 19:30
Where
Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Tickets
£32.50, £24.50, £19
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  1. Overture, from The Wasps - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  2. The Lark Ascending Op 50 - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  3. Pavane pour une infante défunte - Maurice Ravel
  4. The Firebird Suite (1945 version) - Igor Stravinsky
  5. The Future (world premiere) - Ralph Vaughan Williams

Conductor Martin Yates and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra are to give the world premiere performances of a major lost work by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The Future is a large-scale visionary masterpiece for soprano, large chorus and orchestra. Two performances are to take place in Glasgow and Edinburgh on 8th and 9th November 2019 and there will be a pre-concert discussion with the conductor.

Martin Yates, who is no stranger to Vaughan Williams or to completing the composer’s unfinished works, said “RVW was working on ‘The Future’ during 1908, between writing ‘Toward the Unknown Region’ (1906/7) and probably alongside ‘A Sea Symphony’ which premiered in 1909, and I feel the work very much relates to the profound consciousness of both.”

With its themes of time, space and sea, which were to continue to inspire Vaughan Williams’s works, Matthew Arnold’s portentous poem The Future forewarns of the erosion of the natural world, from a Victorian perspective, as traditional ways become overwhelmed by industrialisation and the growth of civilisation.

“RVW edited the text to suit what he was doing”, explained Martin Yates. “The work was left unfinished in short score with a few instrumental cues, and literally runs out about two thirds of the way through. I have completed and scored it and it has a playing time of 35 minutes. I have no idea why RVW left it incomplete because the music he has written is absolutely first class!”

For the world premiere performances of The Future, Martin Yates will conduct the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Chorus, with whom he regularly performs and records, and soprano soloist, Ilona Domnich, who has previously featured in his performances of works by Vaughan Williams and Holst.

The concerts are being supported by the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust: the body set up to promote knowledge and performance of the composer’s works.


Venue
Usher Hall
Lothian Road
Edinburgh
Lothian
EH1 2EA
Scotland


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