Cellist Raphael Wallfisch, whose deeply-moving 100th Anniversary performance of the Elgar Cello Concerto was the undoubted highlight of the 2019 Elgar Festival, returns with a sequence of engaging miniatures for cello and strings arranged by Donald Fraser.
The programme opens with Elgar’s much loved Serenade, and concludes with the playful and witty “Little Music” for strings by the English String Orchestra’s former “Composer-in-Association”, Sir Michael Tippett. Finally, there’s a musical after-dinner sorbet, Evan Chambers virtuosic and hilarious setting of two Irish jigs, The Tall-Eared Fox and the Wild-Eyed Man. The programme also includes only the second UK performance of Harold Truscott’s beautiful Elegy for Strings. It’s an evening celebrating the best of English string music with one of the world’s most admired string orchestras, Worcester’s own English String Orchestra.
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Friday 29 October @ 7:00
Worcester Guildhall
High St, Worcester WR1 2EY
Join us at 6:00 for a pre-concert drink to celebrate the opening of the festival!
Festival Opening Concert
Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the Worcester Charter
English String Orchestra
Kenneth Woods – conductor
Raphael Wallfisch – cello
Tickets £15 (concert only), £18 (concert + glass of wine at 6PM)
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Cellist Raphael Wallfisch
Programme
Sir Edward Elgar – Serenade for Strings
Sir Edward Elgar arr. Donald Fraser – Seven Miniatures for Cello and Strings (live premiere)
- Chanson de Matin
- Chanson de Nuit
- Romance
- Salut d’amour
- Nimrod
- Sospiri
- Bear Dance
– Raphael Wallfisch – cello
– INTERVAL –
Harold Truscott- Elegy for Strings
Sir Michael Tippett – Little Music for Strings
Evan Chambers – The Tall-Eared Fox and the Wild-Eyed Man