BBC Proms 2017: George Walker's Lyric For Strings

The guy conducting...no. he's got a song in his head, but the concert knows the piece!

Beautiful 🎶

❤

The Philadelphia Orchestra is playing the piece tonight in Saratoga, NY.

So beautiful - reminiscent of Finzi....

A beautiful piece of music.

cool piece bro but why is it in f# major😭😭😭

Saw this played last night by this orchestra..............simply amazing!

Magnificent piece of music very moving makes one think of life

❤ what a triumph of a composition and how this orchestra bring its nuances to our attention… astoundingly beautiful.. just glorious. Thank you 🙏🏻🤩 ❤

George Walker a composer of Jamaican heritage although born in Washington DC . He was the first black composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for music.

This is the most underrated piece of music I've ever heard

Performance: Kevin John Edusei conducting Chineke! Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall on August 30, 2017.

For composers and musicians of such talent we should all be profoundly grateful. Splendid.

A VERY MOVING PIECE CAN'T WAIT TO PLAY IT

Lush beautiful and mysterious.

I'm doing a short paper on George Walker for my Music Bibliography class as I watch this. Absolutely beautiful. Saddened that I was unaware of Dr. Walker until a few weeks ago.

greetings from the UK I heard this on radio 3 a moment ago and thought how beautiful this piece was and then found it here. How well constructed this composition is and played so sensitively by an orchestra I have never seen before. A real treat and thank you very much for uploading.

Soooo lovely. Should be a staple in the string rep.

This is so beautiful. I’m going to the Portland Symphony to listen to it live, yeah.

I have needed this music for ages. I feel healed.

this song reminds me ...Mahler

This is a gorgeous performance.

This is one the most beautiful pieces I've heard in a long time. This gives me joy, and I love the diversity of the orchestra, wish more classical performing groups were like this.

No words....only, thank you ❤

I arrived here early one morning, drawn by curiosity; (it was in the "to watch" list , aside the Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration video, I had been glued to for the previous hour.) I'm actually a bit sad that I had to wait until I was 80 years old, to hear these divinely uplifting sounds for the first time. I'm now on a (lockdown) quest, to hear as much more of his work as I can find; I'll be back, whenever my soul needs a little lift! Thank you Mr Walker!

😭Thank you George

This is by far one of the most beautiful compositions I've ever heard

This is such a beautiful piece of music and beautifully rendered, thank you, such peace

lovely

BBC é merda.

So incredibly beautiful <3

Here's a sonorous triumph.

Nice music and it’s calming I wish I could play that good and I play the violin

A beautiful and moving piece.

Beautiful. Spiritual. Transcendent.

Is that Sheku's brother? 1st violins, 2nd row inside?

Does anyone know the reasoning or scholarship that went into the 2nd violins in measure 51 playing a "d" instead of an e-flat?

Love the diversity of this orchestra. And the piece.

Which Orchestra is this and who is the conductor? Thanks.

Such a beautiful, noble piece! The Cincinnati Symphony will be playing it in 2020.

Que c'est beau ! Merci.

Another gem of a slow movement from an early String Quartet (1946) by George Walker, arranged for a larger string ensemble, the same genesis as Barber's "Adagio for strings."
The quality of the writing is superb, the music at least an equal to the Barber.

Thx for putting this up! Lovely. Being played at ChicagoSO 4/12-17/18