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20 Jan 2017, The Sands Centre, Carlisle

Wagner, Dvořák & Elgar

´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic
Wagner, Dvořák & Elgar
19:30 Fri 20 Jan 2017 The Sands Centre, Carlisle
Conductor Sir Andrew Davis is joined by cellist Leonard Elschenbroich for an evening of music from Wagner, Dvořák & Elgar
Conductor Sir Andrew Davis is joined by cellist Leonard Elschenbroich for an evening of music from Wagner, Dvořák & Elgar

Change of soloist

Due to illness, Leonard Elschenbroich will no longer be performing this evening. Jian Wang replaces him, and we wish Leonard a speedy recovery.

Programme

Concert Information

Tonight’s programme opens with Wagner’s lush and romantic Prelude to his opera Tristan and Isolde.

Recognised as one the most charismatic cellists of his generation, former ´óÏó´«Ã½ New Generation Artist Leonard Elschenbroich then joins the orchestra for Dvořák’s Cello Concerto.

The curtain falls on this evening with Elgar's Falstaff, a portrait of ‘a goodly, portly man… of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye and a most noble carriage’, as Shakespeare put it, and Elgar paints a similarly vivid picture of the fat knight in his witty, stirring masterpiece.