English Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kenneth Woods
Sun 23 Mar
|Kings Place
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)
23 Mar 2025, 18:00 – 20:00
Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG
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.