Philharmonia Orchestra: Wolff conducts The Planets

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Wolff conducts The Planets

Royal Festival Hall
Thu 13 May 2010 7:30pm

Hugh Wolff

conductor

Gil Shaham

violin

Philharmonia Voices

Walton

Overture, Portsmouth Point

Walton

Violin Concerto

Holst

The Planets

Music by two of England’s most influential composers of the twentieth century makes up this programme. Walton composed his Violin Concerto for Jascha Heifetz at the height of the violinist’s early fame in 1938-39, and combines the brilliant virtuosity and technique for which Heifetz was so famous with lyrical outpourings of emotional intensity. Composed almost a quarter of a century previously, Holst’s Planets Suite embodies the composer’s fascination with mysticism and spiritualism; his daughter Imogen described the work’s creation as “the result of a 20-years’ search for the right idiom for what he wanted to say”.