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This concert celebrates the descriptive and evocative powers of three of British music’s greatest tone poets. Bax’s masterpiece, Tintagel’, is a uniquely stirring evocation of the mysterious hinterlands in which the Arthurian legends were born, while Elgar’s Falstaff’ is a richly textured portrait of the life and personality of one of Shakespeare’s most memorable characters. Holst’s ground-breaking suite The Planets’, a work of unique and extraordinary power, beauty and immediacy crowns this thrilling evening of music with an invocation of the infinite.
Arnold Bax Tintagel
Elgar Falstaff
Holst The Planets
English Symphony Orchestra
The ESO Chorus
Kenneth Woods, conductor