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St Albans Symphony Orchestra: English Classics
Part of the St Albans Symphony Orchestra 2018-19 Season
Add to my Calendar 11-05-2019 19:30 11-05-2019 21:30 36 St Albans Symphony Orchestra: English Classics The Wasps was Vaughan Williams’s foray into incidental music, written for a performance of a satirical production at Cambridge University. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis is a work for string orchestra based on an original composition by Tallis written in 1567. Elgar had been planning to write a symphony for 10 years and, when premiered, his Symphony No.1 was acclaimed as ‘an immediate and phenomenal success’ and ‘perhaps the finest masterpiece of its type that ever came from the pen of an English composer’. St Saviour's Church, St Albans DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Saviour's Church
25 Sandpit Lane
St Albans
Hertfordshire
AL1 4DF
England
Programme
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Wasps: Overture
Edward Elgar – Symphony no.1 in A flat major, Op.55
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Performers
William Carslake – Conductor
Jennifer Wigram – Leader
St Albans Symphony Orchestra
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Programme Note
The Wasps was Vaughan Williams’s foray into incidental music, written for a performance of a satirical production at Cambridge University.
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis is a work for string orchestra based on an original composition by Tallis written in 1567.
Elgar had been planning to write a symphony for 10 years and, when premiered, his Symphony No.1 was acclaimed as ‘an immediate and phenomenal success’ and ‘perhaps the finest masterpiece of its type that ever came from the pen of an English composer’.
