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13 Apr 2018, Barbican, London
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´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2017-18 Season Sir Andrew Davis conducts a London Premiere by Raymond Yiu

´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis conducts a London Premiere by Raymond Yiu
19:30 Fri 13 Apr 2018 Barbican, London
A London premiere, a lost treasure and two lovely Elgar scores. This is a typically imaginative ´óÏó´«Ã½ SO programme that sees Andrew Davis back on the podium.
A London premiere, a lost treasure and two lovely Elgar scores. This is a typically imaginative ´óÏó´«Ã½ SO programme that sees Andrew Davis back on the podium.

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Elgar opens the concert with music for a children’s fantasy play, full of longing and nostalgia. He also closes it with a requiem, in all but name, to the dead of the First World War, for which the ´óÏó´«Ã½ SO is joined by the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus.

Raymond Yiu, whose Symphony made such an impression at the 2015 Proms, gives us a chance to hear a new work that sets words by Anthony Burgess. And there’s a rarity by a composer who is all but forgotten; Lilian Elkington’s 1921 orchestral piece portrays the return of the body of the Unknown Warrior on the HMS Verdun and the ship’s emergence from the mists – a work of atmospheric power and beauty.