A Sea Symphony

In a special programme to celebrate his 25 years as Chorus Director to the CBSO, Simon Halsey conducts a superb pair of English works which
themselves mark significant anniversaries this year. 2008 sees the 50th
anniversary of the death of Vaughan Williams, and it was his stirring setting of Walt Whitman which announced his arrival as a major symphonist almost exactly a century ago. At the same time his friend Holst was exploring music on a far smaller scale, and his haunting chamber opera Savitri, composed in 1908, tells a timeless Indian tale from the Mahabharata translated into a style heavily influenced by English folk-song. Four oustanding British soloists join the Orchestra, Choruses and Simon Halsey for this stirring evening’s singing.

5.45pm pre-concert talk

£39, £36.50, £31.50, £27.50, £23, £20, £16.50, £13, £9.50

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