BBC Proms S72E14 · Edward Gardner conducts Elgar & Vaughan Williams

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The conflict of war runs through this concert by Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Vaughan Williams’s beautiful cantata Dona nobis pacem and Lili Boulanger frame Elgar’s elegiac Cello Concerto.

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