Programme
Tuesday 18th July at 19.30
South Downs Festival Orchestra
Thomas Hancox - flute
Vaughan Williams Household Music
I. Crug-Y-Bar (Fantasia)
II. St Denio (Scherzo)
III. Aberystwyth (Variations)
Arnold Concerto for Flute and String Orchestra, Op. 45
Mozart Divertimento in F major, K. 138
Grieg Holberg Suite, Op. 40
Wednesday 19th July at 19.30
The Fountain of Youth
Zahra Benyounes, Emily Holland - violin
Eloisa-Fleur Thom - violin
Natalie Klouda - violin
Ting-Ru Lai - viola
Jessie-Ann Richardson - cello
Adrian Bradbury - cello
Toby Hughes - double bass
Mendelssohn Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20
Enescu Octet in C major, Op. 7
Saturday 22nd July at 19.00
ELÉGIE Rachmaninoff - A Heart in Exile
Lucy Parham - piano
Robert Glenister - narrator
Scripted by Lucy Parham
Elégie – chronicles the life of composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff. Though he became an exile in 1917, Russia remained deeply rooted in his soul. His cultural identity and his longing for his homeland imbue his music, not least the many much-loved works he wrote for his own instrument, the piano. The narrative, scripted from letters and diaries, follows Rachmaninoff from his youth in Russia, through his subsequent self-imposed exile in 1917 and finally to California USA, where he died in 1943.
The concert includes many of his best- loved works for solo piano, including a selection of Preludes, Etudes-Tableaux and Moments Musicaux, some of his own transcriptions and the haunting Elegie, as well as works by Scriabin and Tchaikovsky.
