The HSO Spring Celebration Concert
HSO Spring Celebration Concert marking 50 years since Arthur Bliss’s death and 40 years of Bryan Western conducting HSO. Music by Elgar, Bliss and Vaughan-Williams. Soloist Lily Dai (cello).
The HSO Spring Concert is always a favourite with our audiences. This year, the programme includes:
Overture Cockaigne (In London Town) Edward Elgar (1857 – 1934)
Cockaigne describes a land of plenty and relaxation, little if any work, and as much food and drink as you could consume. It has medieval origins, a peasant’s dream of luxury and ease, comfort and pleasure. Elgar’s overture gives a lively and colourful musical portrait of Edwardian London.
Violoncello Concerto Arthur Bliss (1891 – 1975)
Allegro deciso
Larghetto
Allegro
The Cello Concerto was completed in March 1970, having been requested by the great Russian cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich, to whom it was dedicated “with admiration and gratitude”.
Symphony No 5, Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958)
Vaughan Williams had been working on and off for many years on his operatic version of Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. Fearing – wrongly as it turned out – that the opera would never be completed, Vaughan Williams reworked some of the music he’d already written into a new symphony. The work is generally tranquil in character and was particularly well received (1943) for the comfort it gave at a time of all-out war.
Royal Hall - Saturday 29th March - 7:30pm
Book here : https://www.harrogatetheatre.co.uk/events/hso-spring-celebration-concert/#book
