Philharmonia Orchestra: Youth & Beauty
Tuesday 20 November 2018
Venue: Bedford Corn Exchange Main Auditorium – 7.30pm
Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay violin/director
Oliver Wass harp
ALWYN Lyra Angelica, Concerto for
harp and strings
HAYDN Symphony No. 64
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 3
The harp takes centre stage in English composer William Alwyn’s magical concerto, Lyra Angelica (Angels’ Songs), performed by award-winning harpist Oliver Wass. At the heart of the concert there is the opportunity to hear Haydn’s Symphony No. 64: between the shifting moods of the exhilarating opening movement and the mercurial finale comes an expansive Largo exuding a sense of timelessness, and a stately Minuet and Trio. Haydn’s influence can then be heard in Schubert’s Symphony No. 3, written when he was just 18 and brimming with youthful vitality and invention.
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