Dirk Brossé Conductor
Elena Urioste Violin
BROSSÉ Quite a Different Hallelujah
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending
HANDEL Water Music, Suite No. 1
The Chamber Orchestra embarks on a journey up the River Thames with Handel’s Water Music. Written for King George I to be performed on a royal barge in the river, Water Music is actually a collection of orchestral suites that have become some of Handel's most recognizable and beloved compositions. Vaughan Williams’ sublime pastoral romance The Lark Ascending is certainly one of the composer's most enduring and popular masterpieces, and there is perhaps no better musical depiction of England's gentle rolling green hills and wildlife than this clear audience favorite. “But for transfiguring loveliness nothing could beat Vaughan Williams’s meditative, war-haunted pastoral The Lark Ascending, with the guest artist Elena Urioste, sporting a startling patchwork dress, soaring most movingly on her violin, lifting our spirits ever higher the further she flew.” (The Times)