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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Ivor Gurney – War Elegy
Sally Beamish – Violin Concerto
~ Interval ~
Izaak Walton – Symphony no. 1 in B flat minor
Performers
Anthony Marwood – violin
Martyn Brabbins – Conductor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Programme Note
Commemorating 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War, the BBC Symphony Orchestra explores English responses to conflict across three generations. Gassed while fighting in the trenches in 1917, Gurney never fully recovered. His War Elegy (1920) is a characteristically personal lament - heavy with bittersweet sadness and regret.
Sally Beamish’s 1994 Violin Concerto, written for tonight’s soloist, Anthony Marwood, takes inspiration from Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front. While not explicitly programmatic, the slow movement of Walton’s First Symphony is among the 20th century’s most poignant orchestral cries of grief - an echo, perhaps, of horrors past, and a foreshadow of horrors yet to come.