CAVALRY, infantry, firework displays and a Spitfire flyover thrilled spectators at the Battle Proms concert at Blenheim Palace on Saturday.
The ninth annual concert at the palace kicked off with a Napoleonic Wars cavalry and infantry display.
This was followed by an evening gun salute from the English Field Artillery Company, before a musical programme of classical favourites from the New English Concert Orchestra conducted by Douglas Coombes.
Pilot Carolyn Grace then performed an aerial display in a Spitfire above the arena.
Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, with live cannon-fire, served as a warm-up to the final piece which gives the Battle Proms its name: Beethoven’s Wellington’s Victory, which was accompanied by 193 cannon blasts, musket-fire and fireworks.
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