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Philharmonia Orchestra – with Martyn Brabbins and Benjamin Baker
Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto
Elgar
Enigma Variations
To close the Festival, we welcome the Philharmonia Orchestra to Salisbury Cathedral with a programme that showcases this extraordinarily atmospheric space. Vaughan Williams’ Tallis Fantasia, written for a Cathedral acoustic, makes for the perfect opener, before New Zealander Benjamin Baker joins the orchestra for Tchaikovsky’s wondrously virtuosic Violin Concerto. And finally, Elgar’s enigmatic musical sketches of his family, friends and musical acquaintances, at the heart of which lies the famous Nimrod variation.
Quotes Links “String phrases sliding almost imperceptibly out of silence into sound, the syncopations… almost unnerving in their precision.” The Guardian “A tremendous build-up of tension in the finale and plenty of finely judged detail throughout.” The Guardian –