BBC Proms - 2008 - Proms Chamber Concerts - PCM7 - Vaughan Williams, Coleridge-Taylor

From Cadogan Hall, London. Presented by Christopher Cook. The Proms's 2008 commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams's death continues as celebrated British tenor Mark Padmore joins the Nash Ensemble for a performance of On Wenlock Edge - six settings of words by AE Housman exploring themes of hope and loss in the Romantic backdrop of a Shropshire landscape. Plus a rare chance to hear a work by one of Vaughan Williams's fellow students at the Royal College of Music - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's masterly Clarinet Quintet, written in response to a challenge from his teacher Charles Stanford to write a work that would match up to Brahms's famous Quintet without revealing that composer's influence. Mark Padmore (tenor) Nash Ensemble Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Quintet Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge.