BATH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Sun 29 Nov 3:00pm
Sun 29 Nov 3:00pm
Bath Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hogan
Conductor
Charlie Lovell-Jones
Violin
Wiltshire Music Centre
Wiltshire Music Centre Ashley Road Bradford-on-Avon UK
01225 860 100
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Visionaries of the Isles: Elgar, Smyth & Britten
ETHEL SMYTH The Wreckers Overture
BRITTEN Violin Concerto Op 15
ELGAR Symphony No 2 in Eb major Op 63
Three distinctive British composers in one powerful afternoon. Charlie Lovell-Jones performs Britten’s compelling violin concerto, written on the brink of war, before Elgar’s Symphony No. 2 — one of the greatest symphonies ever written, full of joy, sadness and emotional complexity.
Eccentric English composer, Ethel Smyth, wrote her opera The Wreckers after a visit to the Isles of Scilly. It is a tale of love, violence and betrayal and the overture depicts the sea in all its moods as a metaphor for the powerful emotions portrayed.
We are delighted to welcome Charlie Lovell-Jones as soloist in Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto. It was written in 1939, while the composer was in the USA and combines virtuosic brilliance with elegiac lyricism. The mournful character reflects Britten’s sense of looming catastrophe, as the world spiralled into war.
Elgar’s Symphony No. 2 was dedicated to the memory of Edward VII, but the brilliant orchestral writing expresses much more personal emotions, both joy and sadness. Like the composer himself, it is full of contradictions and complexities, referencing Shelley’s poem ‘Rarely, rarely comest thou/Spirit of Delight’.
Please note that the concert start time was incorrectly listed in the brochure. The correct start time is 3:00pm.
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