Name: Bath Festival Orchestra
Start: 2023-06-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-06-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Cadogan Hall

Organization

Conductor

Peter Manning

Tenor

Thomas Walker

Singer

Ben Goldscheider

Horn

Orchestra

Bath Festival Orchestra

Cadogan Hall

London

United Kingdom

Bath Festival Orchestra: Concert Various

Public

Concert

Approved

Tonight, the Bath Festival Orchestra goes back to its roots, recreating one of its original programmes which was conducted by Michael Tippett with concertmaster Yehudi Menuhin, the founder of the Orchestra.

That concert featured Tippett’s Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli, a seductive, radiant piece that climbs from darkness to light, alongside the hugely influential Concerto Grosso that inspired it.

Completing the line-up was Britten’s breakthrough piece Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge, an affectionate musical portrait of his much-admired teacher.

And to that original programme tonight’s concert adds two pieces, giving a pleasingly symmetrical arch to this celebration of English classical music’s mid-century modern heyday. Britten’s Serenade, with its haunting prelude and prologue for solo horn, is an evocative setting of poems about the night as bringer of both tranquillity and malevolence.

And at the heart of the programme is the Suite for Strings by Britten’s contemporary and friend Elizabeth Maconchy.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble