BBC Proms - Hubert Parry: Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)
Details
| Title | BBC Proms - Hubert Parry: Jerusalem (orch. Elgar) |
| Author | BBC Music |
| Duration | 2:23 |
| File Format | MP3 / MP4 |
| Original URL | https://youtube.com/watch?v=sERiPuOQyvo |
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Description
More video from this Prom: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ewwrn3/play/ad3d9r
Malcolm Sargent instigated the tradition of the audience singing Parry's Jerusalem at the Last Night, in 1953. Parry's simple 1916 setting of Blake's words, in unison, was later orchestrated by the composer, but it is Elgar's expanded arrangement of 1922 which has held sway ever since.
(Last Night of the Proms, BBC Proms 2018)
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