Name: St Magnus International Festival - Concert Two
Start: 2019-06-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-06-22T00:00:00.000Z
Location: The Pickaquoy Centre

Admin

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

Others

St Magnus Festival Chorus

Conductor

Ben Gernon

Cellist

Jamal Aliyev

Cello

Chorus master

Paul Rendall

Soprano

Mary Bevan

Baritone

Neal Davies

St Magnus Festival

St Magnus International Festival - Concert Two

Kirkwall

United Kingdom

The Pickaquoy Centre

Public

Concert

Music For Orchestra (1912)

Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85

Grant us peace

Jnanakumar P

Approved

This concert looks both back to World War I and beyond into the world of peace. The German composer Rudi Stephan’s works are small in number as he was a casualty of World War I but filled with a turn-of-the-century romantic expressionism and great promise which was brutally cut short. An equally romantic work, Elgar's Cello Concerto, celebrates the 100th anniversary from its premiere in the post-War era, here performed by the young Turkish cellist whose career has blossomed following a stunning BBC Proms debut in 2017. Vaughan Williams’s call for peace, which precedes the Second World War, brings the St Magnus Festival Chorus to the fore in settings of the Latin Mass text alongside words by Walt Whitman and some from political speeches. The chorus is joined by one of the UK’s finest sopranos, Mary Bevan, and 2018 Ferrier Prize winner Will Thomas.

The concert will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

English

Forestilling krediteringer (Medvirkende & Produktionshold )

Ensemble