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Following on from the success of their virtual concerts for Care Homes and Hospices during lockdown, Corinne Frost and Stephen Warner – aka ‘DownsideUp’ – perform a selection of music in Dementia Meeting Centres. This is a private event – please contact the centre directly for more information.

Following on from the success of their virtual concerts for Care Homes and Hospices during lockdown, Corinne Frost and Stephen Warner – aka ‘DownsideUp’ – perform a selection of music in Dementia Meeting Centres. This is a private event – please contact the centre directly for more information.

Ages 11-19 Grade 7+ Course Dates & Times Thursday 28th October 20219:30am-5:00pm Course...

There will surely be electricity in the air as Kenneth Woods and the ESO perform Elgar’s beloved Enigma Variations, a timeless celebration of friendship and community, and the perfect work with which to welcome our friends and listeners back. It’s been over two years since the triumphant 100th Anniversary performance of the Elgar Cello Concerto for a packed Worcester Cathedral at the 2019 Elgar Festival. It’s time to let the music play again and to celebrate the life and music of Britain’s greatest composer.

Cellist Raphael Wallfisch, whose deeply-moving 100th Anniversary performance of the Elgar Cello Concerto was the undoubted highlight of the 2019 Elgar Festival, returns with a sequence of engaging miniatures for cello and strings arranged by Donald Fraser.

The programme opens with Elgar’s much loved Serenade, and concludes with the playful and witty “Little Music” for string by the English String Orchestra’s former “Composer-in-Association”, Sir Michael Tippett. Finally, there’s a musical after-dinner sorbet, Evan Chambers virtuosic and hilarious setting of two Irish jigs, The Tall-Eared Fox and the Wild-Eyed Man. It’s an evening celebrating the best of English string music with one of the world’s most admired string orchestras, Worcester’s own English String Orchestra.