Delius’s 150th birthday

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Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958)	The Lark Ascending
Delius, Frederick (1862-1934)	Cello Concerto
Delius, Frederick (1862-1934)	Brigg Fair
Elgar, Sir Edward (1857-1934)	Enigma Variations on an Original Theme for Orchestra, Op.36

Performers

Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis	Conductor
Julian Lloyd Webber	Cello
Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay	Violin

A celebration of Delius’s 150th birthday with the composer’s Cello Concerto and Brigg Fair forming the heart of this concert of English music.

Delius’s 150th birthday is marked to the day with this concert of beautiful English music. At the heart of the programme is the composer’s Cello Concerto and his orchestral work Brigg Fair, where his very personal blend of musical impressionism and lush chromaticism create a uniquely English pastoral soundworld. Vaughan Williams’s ever-yearning violin showpiece The Lark Ascending opens the concert, and Elgar’s well-loved suite of variations closes this celebration.

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Fight or flight? Violinists on tackling The Lark Ascending

Kevin W Ng, 5th October

Often dismissed on account of its popularity, The Lark Ascending divides audiences... and players. Our own Kevin Ng is a violinist and avoided it for years, but took advice from three violinists when adding it to his repertoire.

Music of life: Kazuki Yamada on Elgar’s Enigma Variations

Bachtrack, 15th January

The chief conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra discusses his love and fascination for Elgar’s deeply personal work – and his experiences performing it for the first time.

A Delius Celebration at the Royal Festival Hall

Helen Fraser, 31st January

The history of British music reads rather like the old joke about buses: there was no composer of note in the two hundred years after Purcell, and then three came along at once. Whilst Elgar and Vaughan Williams have become household names, the third composer who came along at the end of the nineteenth century has been relegated to the dusty shelves of musical history.

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