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Winter Concert 2023 - Sibelius, Saint-Saëns and Elgar/Payne

With soloist: Youngwoo Choi

Presented by: Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra
0LONDON: St Giles Cripplegate
PSaturday 16th December, 2023
N7:00pm

Event information

The December programme includes two symphonies which represent their composers’ final thoughts. The Seventh Symphony of Sibelius compresses symphonic form and a powerful journey into a concentrated 21-minute span. After this symphony appeared in 1924, Sibelius published nothing further, but an eighth symphony existed in sketches which went on the bonfire, leaving the one-movement Seventh in awesome finality.
By contrast Elgar’s Third Symphony was begun late in life and left as a bundle of sketches when the composer died, which fortunately didn’t reach the bonfire, allowing Anthony Payne to elaborate them into a performing edition.
Saint-Saën’s Third violin concerto is considered one of his best-known works and was premiered in October 1880 in Hamburg when the composer was 55 years old.

Venue information

LONDON: St Giles Cripplegate
0Fore St Avenue
Barbican
London
EC2Y 8DA
> www.stgilesnewsite.co.uk
! 02076381997
` in the heart of Barbican

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