One English conductor plus two English composers equal any Anglophile’s dream program. Ralph Vaughan Williams’s song cycle On Wenlock Edge transports us to a green and pleasant land full of chiming church bells and forlorn farmhands. Gustav Holst’s The Planets launches the pastoral tradition into the extraterrestrial realm, conjuring up the star signs with otherworldly sounds and a wordless offstage women's choir.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
On Wenlock Edge [First San Francisco Symphony Performances]
The Planets
Gustav Holst
Performers
Daniel Harding
Conductor
Andrew Staples
Tenor
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
San Francisco Symphony