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English Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kenneth Woods

Add to my Calendar 23-03-2025 18:00 23-03-2025 20:00 36 English Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kenneth Woods The English Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kenneth Woods, presents a programme of remarkable works for chamber orchestra.  Elgar’s elegiac Romance for Bassoon and Orchestra is paired with Harold Truscott’s intense Elegy and Fribbins’s Folk Songs for Viola and Chamber Orchestra, its three movements focusing on melodies from Wales, Serbia and Hungary. These aural peregrinations take the music east towards Soviet Russia, and the first Flute Concerto by Mieczysław Weinberg, composed in 1961. Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 10, composed in 1964, was dedicated to Weinberg, his close friend. In this arrangement by Rudolf Barshai it takes on the guise of a concentrated but epic Chamber Symphony. Kings Place, London DD/MM/YYYY

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Kings Place
90 York Way
Kings Cross
London
N1 9AG
England

Programme

Edward Elgar – Romance for Bassoon, Op.62
Peter Fribbins – Folk Songs for Viola and Chamber Orchestra
Harold Truscott – Elegy for Strings
Mieczyslaw Weinberg – Flute Concerto no.1, Op.75
Dmitry Shostakovich – Chamber Symphony, Op.118a

Performers

Kenneth Woods – Conductor

English Symphony Orchestra

Programme Note

The English Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kenneth Woods, presents a programme of remarkable works for chamber orchestra.  Elgar’s elegiac Romance for Bassoon and Orchestra is paired with Harold Truscott’s intense Elegy and Fribbins’s Folk Songs for Viola and Chamber Orchestra, its three movements focusing on melodies from Wales, Serbia and Hungary. These aural peregrinations take the music east towards Soviet Russia, and the first Flute Concerto by Mieczysław Weinberg, composed in 1961. Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 10, composed in 1964, was dedicated to Weinberg, his close friend. In this arrangement by Rudolf Barshai it takes on the guise of a concentrated but epic Chamber Symphony.

English Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kenneth Woods

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