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Sat 21 Jun 2008 7:00pm at Symphony Hall
In a special programme to celebrate his 25 years as Chorus Director to the CBSO, Simon Halsey conducts a superb pair of English works which
themselves mark significant anniversaries this year. 2008 sees the 50th
anniversary of the death of Vaughan Williams, and it was his stirring setting of Walt Whitman which announced his arrival as a major symphonist almost exactly a century ago. At the same time his friend Holst was exploring music on a far smaller scale, and his haunting chamber opera Savitri, composed in 1908, tells a timeless Indian tale from the Mahabharata translated into a style heavily influenced by English folk-song. Four oustanding British soloists join the Orchestra, Choruses and Simon Halsey for this stirring evening’s singing.
5.45pm pre-concert talk
£39, £36.50, £31.50, £27.50, £23, £20, £16.50, £13, £9.50
Simon Halsey conductor
Janice Watson soprano
Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano
James Oxley tenor
James Rutherford baritone
City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
Holst: Savitri 30’
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony 64’
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