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Royal Porcelain Works
Severn Street
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR1 2NE
England
Programme
Richard Strauss – Morgen!, Op.27 no.4
Gustav Holst – St Paul's Suite, Op.29 no.2
Béla Bartók – Romanian Folk Dances for orchestra, Sz.68
Dmitry Shostakovich – String Quartet no.8 in C minor, Op.110 (arr. Rudolf Barshai as Chamber Symphony)
George Walker – Lyric for Strings
Gustav Mahler – Symphony no.5: Adagietto
Florence Price – Night
Undine Smith Moore – Watch and Pray
Undine Smith Moore – Love Let the Wind Cry
Performers
Michael Karcher-Young – Conductor
Nadine Benjamin – soprano
English String Orchestra
Programme Note
In this programme, the Strings of the English Symphony Orchestra will play the beautiful Adagietto from Mahler’s Symphony No.5 and Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony, arranged from his Quartet No.8. Béla Bartók collected dance tunes in Transylvania which became the source for his ‘Romanian Folk Dances’, and the programme ends with another Folk-inspired work, this time from English shores; Holst’s toe-tapping ‘St. Paul’s Suite’.
Works by African American composers also feature with soprano Nadine Benjamin featuring in works by Florence Price and Undine Smith-Moore, and the programme includes the contemplative ‘Lyric for Strings’ by George Walker, which is dedicated to Walker's grandmother, who was formerly enslaved.
