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Victoria Hall Methodist Church
Norfolk Street
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S1 2JB
England
Programme
Benjamin Britten – Soirées musicales
Edward Elgar – Chanson de Nuit, Op.15 no.1
Lili Boulanger – D'un soir triste
Edward Elgar – Symphony no.1 in A flat major, Op.55
Performers
George Morton – Conductor
Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
We round off our 74th Concert Series with an evening celebrating music from the 20th century, inspired by twilight, evening and night.
Britten’s sparkling orchestral suite Soirées Musicales, based on Themes by Rossini, gets the evening off to a toe-tapping beginning before we perform Elgar’s somewhat more-calm Chanson de Nuit. Lili Boulanger, the sister of celebrated French composer and pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, completed her sensational D’un Soir Triste only months before her tragic death at the age of just 24. It was, in fact, the last piece of music that Boulanger was able to score by hand, with the writing on the manuscript becomes ever weaker and more indistinct until it’s difficult to make out the notes.
Elgar’s explosive First Symphony was written when he was an already world-famous 51-year-old and was instantly an international hit– the perfect piece to round off our season!