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Great Malvern Priory
Church Street
Malvern
Worcestershire
WR14 2AY
England
Tickets
Programme
Edward Elgar – Organ Sonata in G major, Op.28
Edward Elgar – Symphony no.1 in A flat major, Op.55
Ian Venables – Rhapsody
Performers
David Briggs – organ
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Programme Note
Since its inception in 2018, the annual Elgar Festival has grown from a weekend to a 9-day celebration of the life and music of Worcester’s most famous son and Britain’s great composer, Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934), and held at a number of integral venues of both historic interest and personal significance to the composer including Worcester Cathedral and Guildhall, St George’s RC Church and Great Malvern Priory.
Today's concert:
Pre-concert Q & A at 2pm with David Briggs and host Dr Jonathan James.
Considered by many to be the greatest organist of modern times, David Briggs talks about his life in music and how he’s brought the symphonies of Elgar, Vaughan Williams and even Gustav Mahler into the organ repertoire through his toweringly virtuosic transcriptions.
Recital at 3pm
Can one musician really do justice to a work originally written for an orchestra of 100 players? They can if their name is David Briggs, whose transcriptions of symphonic masterpieces by Mahler, Vaughan Williams and Elgar have astounded audiences worldwide. Briggs performs his stunning transcription of Elgar’s First Symphony alongside the master’s Organ Sonata and the evocative and beautiful Rhapsody by featured festival composer Ian Venables.
