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Andrew Manze

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Katie Coventry

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Orchestra

Scott of the Antarctic: Film with Live Orchestra

Liverpool

United Kingdom

Philharmonic Hall

Scott of the Antarctic: Film with Live Orchestra: Concert Various

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(2 Dec 1948) The Queen, accompanied by Princess Margaret and the Duke of Edinburgh, at the Empire Cinema, Leicester Square, to see the feature "Scott of the Antarctic". Many American and British film stars were present.

ROYAL COMMAND FILM PERFORMANCE - "SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC"

“To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield”. The story of Captain Scott’s tragic voyage to the South Pole is one of the greatest of all adventures, and the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic is a true classic of British cinema, shot in spectacular full-colour. Naturally, they asked Vaughan Williams to write the score and now, in his 150th anniversary year, we get to hear his extraordinary music in full-colour too, as the Orchestra, Choir, soprano soloist and Andrew Manze accompany the film, live in concert. The score later formed the basis of his Sinfonia antartica (Symphony No.7).

'The music remains a marvel, providing the emotional undercurrent that this tale of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition needs. Vaughan Williams may never have visited the end of the earth himself but he understood the terror and majesty of its landscape, channelling it into craggy themes, unsettling dissonances and eerie orchestration…'
The Times

English

Scott of the Antarctic: Film with Live Orchestra by Various, Fra (2022/2022), Dirigent Andrew Manze, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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