Kings Place: London Chamber Music Society
6.00pm
23rd March 2025
Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG

Programme

Elgar – Romance for Bassoon and String Orchestra Op. 62
Harold Truscott  – Elegy for Strings
Peter Fribbins – Folk Songs for Viola and Chamber Orchestra
Weinberg  – Flute Concert No. 1, Op. 75
Shostakovich – Chamber Symphony Op.118a (arr. Barshai)

 

Artists

English String Orchestra
Conductor: Kenneth Woods
Soloists:
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Elgar’s elegiac Romance for Bassoon and Orchestra is paired with Harold Truscott’s intense Elegy and Fribbins’s Folk Songs for Viola and Chamber Orchestra, its three movements focusing on melodies from Wales, Serbia and Hungary. These aural peregrinations take the music east towards Soviet Russia, and the first Flute Concerto by Mieczysław Weinberg, composed in 1961. Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 10, composed in 1964, was dedicated to Weinberg, his close friend. In this arrangement by Rudolf Barshai it takes on the guise of a concentrated but epic Chamber Symphony.