Elgar Festival 2025 - Elgar's Wind Quintets ‘Notes from the organ loft’

7.00pm

27th May 2025

St George’s RC Church, 1 Sansome Place, Worcester WR1 1UG

Programme

Music for Wind Quintet by Edward Elgar

Artists

ESO Wind Quintet

Soloists: Hamish Macaulay (narrator)

About this Concert

In addition to playing bassoon in a woodwind quintet (two flutes, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon) with his brother Frank, the young Edward Elgar wrote seven pieces of “Harmony Music” beginning in 1878, seven years before the publication of his Opus 1. The players for whom Elgar wrote the quintets were his young friends, who met regularly for music on Sunday afternoons in a garden shed behind his father’s shop.