ELGAR Cockaigne Overture RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No.1 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No.2 "London" Andrew Litton conductor Alexei Volodin piano
Vaughan Williams' Second Symphony has been described as the musical equivalent of Monet’s paintings of the sun rising over a foggy Thames. Actual London sounds fleetingly emerge from an exquisitely woven musical tapestry - the chimes of Big Ben, the cry of a lavender-seller. Central to the symphony’s success is the wonderful limpid scoring, which Vaughan Williams felt in later life that he had never bettered.
An illustrated tour through the dark story of our fascination with murder, with Dr Lucy Worsley, BBC TV presenter, renowned historian and Chief Curator at the charity Historic Royal Palaces. She’ll not only examine some notorious crimes and criminals, but also explain how murder became a form of middle-class entertainment through novels, plays, paintings, and the press. Starting with an horrific early nineteenth-century serial-killer in the East End of London, she’ll end with the tame drawing room dramas of Agatha Christie.
Dr Lucy Worsley is Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces...
Bring in the New Year with style with the BSO's annual celebration of all things Viennese. The glories of the Vienna dance-halls are brought to life in a bubbling selection of waltzes, gallops, polkas and marches by Johann Strauss and his contemporaries.
The full glory of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra playing Strauss as it should be played is always a highlight of the year, and this January the Orchestra is joined by young Viennese maestro Thomas Rösner who has been enjoying great success across the opera houses of Europe and the US.
A longhouse is a medieval farmhouse in which both people and cattle were accommodated under a single roof.
Higher Uppacott is a grade one listed building of rare and national importance. It is one of the few remaining examples of this historic building type, which has retained its lower or shippon end (cattle shelter) in its original unaltered state. One of the things that makes Higher Uppacott so special is that its development from medieval beginnings through to the present day is still clearly evident within the fabric of the building. The longhouse is not open to the public all...
Help walk off that festive excess in the company of a Dartmoor Ranger.
Join Ranger Simon Lee for a walk around the Trenchford area. Hear more about the work of the Rangers and discover that there is more to this area than meets the eye.
Please book in plenty of time as these walks are very popular.
A ground-breaking genomic medicine project, which aims to establish England as a world leader in the fight against cancer and rare disease, will be led in the South West by the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E) working in partnership with other hospitals across Somerset, Devon and Cornwall.
The RD&E has been selected today by NHS England as one of 11 centres in England that will jointly lead its 100,000 Genomes Project.
The project involves collecting and decoding 100,000 human genomes – complete sets of people’s genes – that will enable...
Jenn Burston from Exeter is looking forward to an amazing Christmas and New Year as she celebrates winning £3,062,272 in the Lotto Quadruple rollover draw on Wednesday 17 December.
The unexpected present arrived after she played a chance Lucky Dip online.
Jenn who says she feels a ‘bit gobsmacked’ by the size of the win describes how she found out: “I always play EuroMillions online and saw the big Lotto rollover so decided to have a go. On Wednesday night, I was on my way to bed and thought I’d look at my account to see if I’d won anything. I logged in on my phone and it...
Stagecoach South West confirmed today (22 December) that, for the duration of the upcoming A30 to Exeter Airport roadworks, it will be necessary for the 56 service to operate a special emergency timetable.
For the duration of the Exeter airport road works the road between the A30 and Exeter Airport will be open in one direction only.
This closure will be in place from Monday 5th January for approximately 6 weeks.
Whilst journeys from Exeter to Exmouth will be unaffected, the journeys between Exmouth and Exeter will have to operate a diversion route, and a special...
Accountants and financial advisers Old Mill have turned £50 into £5,772.40 for Children’s Hospice South West.
Old Mill’s Exeter office took part in Ashfords Solicitors CHSW £50 challenge, where businesses are given £50 which they then use to raise as much money as they can for charity.
Six local businesses, including Ashford’s who put in five teams, Optix Solutions and Somerset College, took part in the challenge, which took place over 10 weeks. Old Mill raised by far the most with almost £6,000; in second place was AC Mole, with a total of £2,314.20 and in third was Bishop...
