EVENT CANCELLATION
We are sorry to announce that this concert has been cancelled as a result of the developing situation regarding COVID-19. This action has been taken to protect the health and wellbeing of Trinity Orchestra’s audience members and players.
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We are sorry for any disappointment caused and hope to welcome you to a Trinity Orchestra performance later in the year.
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STERNDALE BENNETT Overture: The Naiads
ELGAR Cello Concerto
SULLIVAN Symphony in E major, Irish
John Andrews – conductor
Ben Tarlton – cello
We welcome back Music Director John Andrews to conduct an all-English programme. The centrepiece is probably the best-loved of all Edward Elgar’s compositions, if not the most popular and often performed piece in all of 20th-century English repertoire: his celebrated Cello Concerto in E minor. It will be performed by prize-winning young cellist Ben Tarlton.
The lesser-known but distinguished English composer Sterndale Bennett’s lovely The Naiads overture was inspired by a trip down the Rhine, whereas Arthur Sullivan’s Symphony in E, known as the Irish, was written after the composer returned, at the age of 21, from a holiday in Northern Ireland. He wrote to his mother that “as I was jolting home … through wind and rain in an open car, the whole first movement of a symphony came into my head with a real Irish flavour about it.” The Symphony shows the influence of Mendelssohn, Schubert and Schumann on the composer, though Sullivan brings his own distinctive voice to the music.
Image: Ben Tarlton © Cami Capelli Photography