Black History Month Concert – The Art of the Rag
We mark Black History Month in the United Kingdom with this electrifying programme celebrating the emergence and evolution of Ragtime, a musical revolution that still reverberates today.
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Category: Watch Again
Bluebeard’s Castle
The ESO complete their first year of Music from Wyastone virtual concerts with a concert performance of Bartók’s one-act opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, written in 1911.
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Mahler’s Ninth Symphony
The Ninth Symphony was Mahler’s last completed work, and the composer did not live to see it performed. It has since come to be viewed as possibly the Everest of symphonic music. Mahler’s friend, composer Alban Berg, wrote of the piece that “I have once more played through Mahler’s Ninth. The first movement is the most glorious he ever wrote. It expresses an extraordinary love of the earth, for Nature. The longing to live on it in peace, to enjoy it completely, to the very heart of one’s being, before death comes, as irresistibly it does.”
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Composer Portrait – Adrian Williams
We present a special concert of music by the orchestra’s current “John McCabe Composer-in-Association”, Adrian Williams.
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Elgar Reimagined – String Quartet in E minor
David Matthews’ string orchestra adaptation of the Elgar String Quartet was made at the instigation of George Vass, and premiered at the 2010 Presteigne Festival. Woods worked closely with Matthews on the work ahead of a performance at the 2017 Colorado MahlerFest, and the ESO first performed it at the 2018 Elgar Festival.
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