Elgar's Enigma Variations present a bucolic image of pre-war Britain, his cello concerto is a much-loved staple of late Victorian English concert repertoire. Yoanna Prodanova plays on a Giuseppe Gagliano cello. We open with Brahms' Tragic Overture.
The Siegfried Idyll was a birthday greeting to Wagner’s wife Cosima in 1870. Dvorak's lively Slavonic Dances date from 1870, Saint-Saens' La Nuit from 1900, Coleridge-Taylor's irresistibly tuneful and big-hearted violin concerto from 1912.
Elodie was a finalist in BBC Young Musician of the Year 2018 and is an ambassador for the Benedetti Foundation.
Mozart's last work, written as he drew his final breaths, is his most loving and human. Ave Verum, unlike the dramatic Requiem on which Mozart was working at the same time, is simple and humble; Mozart called it sotto voce (subdued).
Mozart's last work, written as he drew his final breaths, is his most loving and human. Ave Verum, unlike the dramatic Requiem on which Mozart was working at the same time, is simple and humble; Mozart called it sotto voce (subdued).
Garwyn Linnell's cello is at the heart of this concert. In the cello suite No. 2 Bach is at his most intimate.
The plangent cello in Syvati represents the Priest, the choir sings as the coffin is borne out of the church.
Durufle's Requiem is often described as the only worthy successor to Faure's. Duruflé’s sensuous harmonies suffuse every note with feeling.
The sacred oratorio for soloists and double choir and double orchestra, heralded as one of greatest pieces of Baroque sacred music.