Elgar and Holst The Planets

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Barbican HallSilk Street, London, Greater London, EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom

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Programme

Elgar, Sir Edward (1857-1934)	Violin Concerto in B minor, Op.61
Holst, Gustav (1874-1934)	The Planets, Op.32

Performers

Sir Antonio Pappano	Conductor
London Symphony Orchestra
Vilde Frang	Violin
Tenebrae

Elgar’s lyrical Violin Concerto was inscribed with the mysterious phrase, ‘Herein is enshrined the soul of ….’. The whole ensemble glows across three emotionally expansive movements – at times tempestuous, at others heartbreakingly tender.

Completed in 1917, Holst’s The Planets can still surprise us. From ‘Mars’ – the piece that inspired countless film soundtracks – to the swelling majesty of ‘Jupiter’ and the atmospheric fade-out of ‘Neptune’, this is composition on a cosmic scale.

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Time stands still in Vilde Frang’s Elgar

Mark Pullinger, 13th September

In an evening pairing two English classics, Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symhony Orchestra in Elgar’s Violin Concerto and an out-of-this-world account of Holst’s The Planets.

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