Jaime Martín conducts this stunning program of perennial English charmers – some of the most popular orchestral music ever written.
First, you'll tour through the instruments of the orchestra with Benjamin Britten’s delightful A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. Then, you'll hear a work by Ralph Vaughan Williams, a figurehead of England’s Folk Music Revival, who would spend his time rambling through the countryside to ‘collect’ folk tunes from villagers.
The final work on this program is the tune Elgar called Enigma – to express the ‘nothingness’ from which it came. Each of the 14 variations on this never-revealed theme paints musical portrait of one of Elgar’s friends. The most famous – Nimrod – is one of the most emotionally profound and magnificent works of all time.