Concert Details
Tony Palmer: O Thou Transcendent
2nd May 2008
7:30pm, Gloucester Guildhall
This is the first ever full-length film biography of RVW, produced by the multi-award winning director, Tony Palmer. The film features those who knew and worked with him, and the Gloucester Cathedral Choir, conducted by Andrew Nethsingha.
There are also archive performances by Boult and Barbirolli, newly discovered interviews with Vaughan Williams himself, specially recorded extracts from the Symphonies, Job, The Lark Ascending and of course the Tallis Fantasia. Look out for unexpected contributions from Harrison Birtwistle, John Adams, Mark Anthony Turnage, Michael Tippett and Neil Tennant of The Pet Shop Boys.
A glorious three-hour celebration of a great man.
