Residentie Orkest The Hague plays the Dutch première of Theo Verbey’s After the great war, after the very well-received first performance in Tampere, Finland. In this homage to soldiers who died in the First World War, Verbey excels in fine instrumentation.

Violist and violinist Isabelle van Keulen plays the solo part in Britten’s melancholy Lachrymae, which ends with John Dowland’s song Come, heavy sleep. The concert closes with Vaughan Williams’ Fifth Symphony, which he wrote during the Second World War.