Elgar’s Cello Concerto

Tue 4 Nov 7:30pm at Symphony Hall

Vernon Handley

Vernon Handley

Composed during the blitz and premiered at the 1943 Proms, Vaughan Williams’ serene Fifth Symphony seems like a retreat from the real world to an imagined paradise. Elgar’s equally lyrical Cello Concerto, composed in 1919, also feels like a reaction against the horrors of wartime. Vernon Handley, such a tireless champion of English music, precedes these two masterpieces with a musical fairytale by Granville Bantock, who did so much for Birmingham’s musical life and was instrumental in the founding of the CBSO in 1920.

6.15pm Pre-concert talk – Vaughan Williams’ Fifth
Baz Chapman – Programme Director of Sing Up – shares his enthusiasm for Vaughan Williams’ great wartime symphony.

£9.50, £13.50, £17, £20.50, £23.50, £28, £32, £37, £39.50

Vernon Handley – conductor
Anne Gastinel – cello
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Bantock: The Witch of Atlas 15’
Elgar: Cello Concerto 26’
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 42’

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