Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra

Overview

For the opening concert we are joined by Brighton Festival Chorus who celebrate their 50th anniversary this year. Barry Wordsworth & BFC recently recorded a number of Elgar’s works for choir and orchestra together, including some of those performed this afternoon.  The concert opens in celebratory style with Shostakovich’s lively Festive Overture and Handel’s choral masterpiece Zadok the Priest.  Parry’s From Death to Life – a symphonic poem for orchestra in two connected movements – was a 1914 Brighton Festival commission, it portrays the composer’s personal reaction to World War One and the spiritual triumph of life over death.  Elgar’s concert overture Cockaigne is a musical evocation of the streets of London in Edwardian times.

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