Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft joins us on the road again this autumn, kicking off the programme with Hannah Kendall鈥檚 The Spark Catchers. From its vigorous liveliness and rhythmic drive to its brooding melodies and distinguished gleaming delicacy, the work is based on Lemn Sissay鈥檚 wonderfully dynamic and vibrant poem of the same name.
Glazunov鈥檚 Violin Concerto, although written over a century before Hannah Kendall鈥檚 work, portrays a similar lyricism and rhythmic liveliness. Combining soloistic virtuosity with deep emotion and lyrical expression, moods, tempos and dynamics shift between movements to create the whole. Dvo艡谩k reflects sheer joy of the natural world in his equally rhythmic and melodious Eighth Symphony. Low, dark chorales give way to heroic woodwind solos, melancholic eloquence give way to dance tinged joy in this rousingly dramatic symphony.
