Ivor Novello: We'll Gather Lilacs - BBC Proms 2012 Video Free Download

BBC Proms 2012 from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

As part of Glamorous Night: A Celebration of Ivor Novello, Sir Mark Elder leads the Hallé, Toby Spence (tenor) and Sophie Bevan (soprano) in We'll Gather Lilacs.

This concert was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3; it is available on-demand for seven days after broadcast. Radio 3 is streamed in HD sound online. Scheduled broadcast on BBC Two, Saturday 11th August at 9.00pm.  

For more from this Prom with full details, programme notes and recommended links: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2012/august-09/14270

Comments

10 years ago

Linda Williams

So well put together by the BBC, this is what music is all about, long live the music of Ivor Novello

11 years ago

Lorraine Ward

This one is for my late Nan Phylis Rose Reid as she used to sing it at various venues such as The Keir Hardy Hall and The jolly Butchers and I am sure that she's still singing in Heaven...............

11 years ago

alisondragonfly

Lovely : )

12 years ago

bruce martin

Wonderful! Keep the music of the great Ivor Novello ALIVE!!!

12 years ago

Tenortalker

Sophie Bevan produces some lovely pianissimos - she takes risks. Toby Spence is also brave - i see his Wikipedia entry says that he was operated on for thyroid cancer earlier this year. Much to admire! The great singers of this music in the past understood the style. They knew how to put the song across through the medium of personality/ character. The Ivor Novello shows, as with those of Coward and Ellis,are rarely performed and perhaps a glimmer of that style is heard in old recordings.

12 years ago

anastasios frangos

Agree 100%.

12 years ago

Wendy Cork

Does anyone know how I can buy a copy of this concert please? My father would like a copy as he thoroughly enjoyed it and hasn't stopped talking about it since he watched it.

12 years ago

JohnOX4

The best version of this song is by Webster Booth & Anne Ziegler.

12 years ago

richl

They both look so uncomfortable, ill at ease.

12 years ago

Uncle Davey

This is lovely. By the bye, if even the great BBC can upload something slightly out of audio-synch, that's very comforting for the ordinary you-tuber!