Andrew Wilson-Dickson conductor
Charlie Bird cor anglais
Ailsa Bailey trumpet

Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No 5
Copland Quiet City
Nielsen Suite for strings Op 1 Little Suite
James MacMillan Seven Last Words from the Cross

An outstanding programme, centred on the clear, rich and wonderfully committed playing of the Bristol Camerata string orchestra, opens with the serenely lovely Adagietto from Mahler's Fifth (as heard in Visconti's film Death in Venice), full of endless and ineffable longing. The strings then provide a perfectly refined featherbed of tone to cushion the nostalgic trumpet and cor anglais solos in Copland's breathtakingly evocative Quiet City, an affectionate, highly skilled tribute to the wakeful nights of inhabitants of a great metropolis that never sleeps; Nielsen's revelatory, elegiac Little Suite Op 1 is then expressively rendered.

James MacMillan's staggering, exceptionally beautiful Seven Last Words from the Cross, a vivid depiction of the Passion and one of the greatest of contemporary choral works, is performed with confidence and energy by the virtuoso chamber choir Il coro Camerata.

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