Philharmonia Orchestra: Sir Andrew Davis conducts in Basingstoke

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Sir Andrew Davis conducts in Basingstoke

The Anvil
Sat 11 May 2013 7:45pm

Sir Andrew Davis

conductor

Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay

violin

Vaughan Williams

The Lark Ascending

Elgar

In the South

Vaughan Williams

Symphony No. 2, A London Symphony

The day after the first performance of Vaughan William’s A London Symphony, on 27 March 1914, George Butterworth wrote to the composer that he was “frightfully glad” that “you have at last achieved something worthy of your gifts”. Vaughan Williams later confided to Sir John Barbirolli that it was his own favourite of the nine symphonies he wrote. A slow, quiet introduction depicts daw, with the harp and clarinet sounding the chimes of Westminster, followed by scenes of Bloomsbury Square, the East-end, and finally a tragic appassionata presumably depicting the grimmer sides of city life at that time. Vaughan William's The Lark Ascending shall open 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.