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English Symphony Orchestra with Kenneth Woods (conductor)

London Chamber Music Society

Sun 23 Mar 2025
Classical

English Symphony Orchestra with Kenneth Woods (conductor)

London Chamber Music Society

Elgar Romance for Bassoon and String Orchestra Op.62
Harold Truscott Elegy for Strings (12')
Peter Fribbins Folk Songs for Viola and Chamber Orchestra
Weinberg Flute Concerto No.1 Op.75
Shostakovich Chamber Symphony Op.118a (arr. Barshai)
Kenneth Woods conductor
English Symphony Orchestra

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.

The performance will last approximately 2 hours, including an interval.

Date:Sun 23 Mar 2025
Start time:6pm (Doors: 5.30pm)
Venue:Hall One
Price:£8.50-£36.00
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