Philharmonia Orchestra: Capuçon performs at the Royal Festival Hall

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Capuçon performs at the Royal Festival Hall

Royal Festival Hall
Tue 14 Dec 2010 7:30pm

Sir Roger Norrington

conductor

Gautier Capuçon

cello

Philharmonia Voices

Vaughan Williams

Overture, The Wasps

Elgar

Cello Concerto

Holst

The Planets

Holst wrote his most famous orchestral suite, The Planets, after being introduced by a friend to astrology. Each planet is characterised musically; Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity is said to have inspired two cleaning ladies at its first performance to throw down their mops and dance, although in later years it has come to be more closely associated with patriotism, after being re-written as the hymn tune I Vow To Thee My Country. In this evening’s all-English programme it is paired with Elgar’s great elegy for the loss of the England he loved, his Cello Concerto, and Vaughan Williams’s Wasps Overture, part of his incidental music written to accompany Aristophanes’ play of the same name.