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Kings Place
90 York Way
Kings Cross
London
N1 9AG
England
Programme
Edward Elgar – Romance for Bassoon, Op.62
Peter Fribbins – Folk Songs for Viola and Chamber Orchestra
Harold Truscott – Elegy for Strings
Mieczyslaw Weinberg – Flute Concerto no.1, Op.75
Dmitry Shostakovich – Chamber Symphony, Op.118a
Performers
Kenneth Woods – Conductor
English Symphony Orchestra
Programme Note
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.
