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BBC Proms - 2008 - Prom 29: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Prom 29 - Part 2

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From the Royal Albert Hall, London, this Prom concludes with two major pieces by Ralph Vaughan Williams: a work for strings commissioned for the New York World's Fair just before the Second World War and a symphony apparently inspired by the horrors it brought. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Leonard Slatkin (conductor) Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus; Symphony No 6 in E minor.