Experience the Last Night of the Proms 2024 featuring Angel Blue, Sir Stephen Hough, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for a joyous celebration of music.
BBC Proms: 2024: Last Night of the Proms
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The Heart’s Assurance (Tippett) & A Charm of Lullabies (Britten)
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Subscribe NowThomas Elwin is the tenor soloist in Tippett's The Heart’s Assurance – the most remarkable and fearless setting of poetry by young men who fought and died in WW2. These poems, thrusting sensual desire into a landscape of death, finds response in movement by Bernadette Iglich. Katie Stevenson is the soloist in Britten’s bizarre A Charm of Lullabies, composed on poems by William Blake, Robert Burns, Robert Greene, Thomas Randolph and John Phillip – maybe not the kind of thing to sing you to sleep.
Cast & Crew
Thomas Elwin (Tenor), Richard Dowling (Actor, The Heart's Assurance), Bernadette Iglich (The Heart's Assurance), James Conway (A Charm of Lullabies), (Director), Katie Stevenson (A Charm of Lullabies), Ian Tindale (Pianist)