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St Saviour's Church
25 Sandpit Lane
St Albans
Hertfordshire
AL1 4DF
England
Programme
Grażyna Bacewicz – Overture for Orchestra
William Walton – Cello Concerto
~ Interval ~
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony no.6 in E minor
Performers
Ben Tarlton – cello
Orlando Jopling – Conductor
St Albans Symphony Orchestra
Programme Note
SASO will play Grażyna Bacewicz’s Overture, William Walton’s Cello Concerto, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Sixth Symphony.
Overture was composed in 1943, during the German occupation of Grażyna’s home, Poland. With its clear form consisting of short, contrasting segments, Overture packs the power of a larger symphonic work into a compact six minutes.
Walton’s Cello Concerto has been described as ‘introspective, with a ticking rhythm throughout the work suggesting the inexorable passage of time’.
First performed in 1948, Vaughan Williams’s Sixth Symphony is a large-scale complex twentieth century masterpiece of unsettling emotional content.
