Bristol Classical Players
British Classics
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BCP celebrates the best in British music, culminating in Elgar’s famous celebration of ‘my friends pictured within’. At the heart of this bustling, witty work lies Nimrod, which has become a second National Anthem.
Rebecca Chambers, viola
Tom Gauterin, conductor
Where Elgar led, other radicals followed: Suffragrette Ethel Smyth’s rollicking overture to her seafaring Cornish opera ‘The Wreckers’ is followed by Walton’s bittersweet Viola Concerto, written when he was the enfant terrible of the British music scene. We are delighted to welcome Rebecca Chambers, Principal Viola of English National Opera, as tonight’s soloist.
The programme is completed by Vaughan Williams’s immortal Tallis Fantasia. Rarely far from the top of Classic FM’s annual chart, this soaring work combines Tudor inspiration with 20th century harmony and power.
Programme
Smyth Overture to the Wreckers
Walton Violin Concerto
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Elgar Enigma Variations
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