Philharmonia Orchestra plays at Truro Cathedral
The world-renowned Philharmonia makes its home at the Royal Festival Hall in London but is equally renowned for taking the same high quality music that it performs in London to venues throughout the UK, from Aberdeen to Plymouth, and now to Truro.
This concert is held in association with St Endellion Summer Festival, with whom Richard Hickox is also conductor, which runs from July 19-August 8.
Forming part of a tour of UK cathedrals that includes performances at Chichester Cathedral and Tewkesbury Abbey, this concert is also part of the Philharmonia's major series with conductor Richard Hickox commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the death of Vaughan Williams.
According to Richard Hickox: “Vaughan Williams' nine symphonies represent an extraordinary range of human experience. Each and every symphony, in Michael Kennedy's words 'is a necessary and inevitable extension of the composer's personality – a momentous personal statement'.”
This concert will feature Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony, which, premièred in the midst of the Second World War, represented a shift back to the romantic style of the composer's Pastoral Symphony.
Michael Kennedy, the series' artistic advisor, writes that, although the music epitomises what might be called “the Englishness of English music”, the attentive listener will not fail to notice the influence of Ravel, with whom Vaughan Williams studied in 1908.
Making her début with the Philharmonia is young violinist Jennifer Pike.
She was the youngest-ever winner of the prestigious BBC Young Musician of the Year competition at the age of just 12. Now 18, this year she became the first classical musician to ever win a South Bank Show Breakthrough Artist Award, having been described by Richard Morrison in The Times as “mesmerisingly good”.
Jennifer will be performing the quintessentially romantic Bruch Violin Concerto, which, bursting with exuberant themes, is adored for its impassioned slow movement.
Tickets for the concert which starts at 7.30pm are £8, £11, £13, £15 and £19 from the Hall for Cornwall box office on 01872 262466 or online at www.hallforcornwall.co.uk
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