Elgar Symphony No.1 - BBC SSO Glasgow Series 2023/24 by Woolgar, Mozart, Elgar, Joi 23 Nov. 2023, De la (2023/2023), Dirijor Ryan Wigglesworth, City Halls, Glasgow, United Kingdom

ESCAPE INTO SWEEPING MELODIES. British music isn’t always what you expect. Edward Elgar was a shopkeeper’s son from a country town, but his First Symphony spans worlds – a sweeping, multicoloured musical autobiography on a magnificent scale, burning with passion and beginning (as well as ending) with a melody you’ll never forget. Jonathan Woolgar comes from West Yorkshire, but in his award-winning Canzoni et Ricercari he travels in time to the Renaissance, unlocking new sounds of bracing power and haunting beauty. Our Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth brings a composer’s creativity to these two astonishing scores – and is joined by BBC Young Musician 2014, Martin James Bartlett, to celebrate the brilliance, the wit and the unchained inspiration of Mozart. This concerts ends at approximately 9:25pm.