CBSO Elgar's Enigma

To begin our series featuring the amazing musical decade leading up to the CBSO’s birth in 1920, we have one of the jewels of English music – Vaughan Williams’ luminous Tallis Fantasia, premiered in 1910. Britten’s late work for viola and strings also draws on older English music, while James Macmillan’s striking trumpet concerto is a prayer inspired by the composer’s Christian faith. This concert of deeply personal British music ends with Elgar’s brilliant tribute to his friends.

Pre-concert talk 5.45pm
Elgar to MacMillan
Conductor Edward Gardner introduces tonight’s concert, in conversation with Stephen Maddock.

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