Philharmonia Orchestra: Sir Andrew Davis conducts in Canterbury

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Sir Andrew Davis conducts in Canterbury

Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
Fri 10 May 2013 7:30pm

Sir Andrew Davis

conductor

Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay

violin

Vaughan Williams

The Lark Ascending

Elgar

In the South

Holst

The Planets

Holst famously stated “When I’m composing I feel just like a mathematician”. However, for his most famous composition The Planets he must have felt like an astrologer, the composer turning to his extra-musical interest of space for inspiration. Premiering in 1918, the seven-part tone poem, which evokes the characters of the then known planets of the universe, came to express the nation’s collective emotions during the First World War. The work is full of familiar episodes that have become ingrained in British culture - the menacing ‘Mars’ movement, the eerie calm of ‘Venus’, the triumphal, patriotic ‘Jupiter’ - and is one of the most celebrated pieces of the 20th century. Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending opens the concert - a yearning, romantic utterance that brilliantly evokes the song of the lark and contains an eloquent cadenza that wistfully suggests the beauty of nature.