October 8th at Elgar Concert Hall, Birmingham University Campus
7:30 PM
English String Orchestra
Kenneth Woods- principal conductor
Tippett- Concerto for Double String Orchestra
John McCabe- “Pilgrim” for Double String Orchestra
Vaughan Williams- Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Elgar- Introduction and Allegro for Strings
Tickets: £16, £12, £8
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ESO String Quartet- Michael Bochmann, Angus Gibbon-violins, Helen Roberts- viola, Peter Adams- cello
The ESO’s first concert in the splendid acoustic of Elgar Hall with a survey of the best of English string orchestra music “Pilgrim” by ESO composer-in-association John McCabe is a powerful evocation of John Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress.” McCabe’s predecessor as ESO composer-in-association was Sir Michael Tippett, whose vibrant and witty Concerto opens the concert. Few works have won the kind of place in listener’s hearts held by Vaughan Williams’ haunting Fantasia, a work the ESO has recorded to international acclaim. Finally, what better finale could there be for a concert in Elgar Hall than one of the master’s own finest works, performed by the orchestra based in his home town of Malvern?
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