Saturday 23 June 2018 7:30
The Parish Church, Old Glossop

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 Matthew Sharp cello

Dvořák Slavonic Dances Op 72 No 7 in C minor / Op 46 No 2 in E minor
Elgar Cello Concerto
Schubert Symphony No 8 ‘Unfinished’
Dvořák Slavonic Dances Op 72 No 2 in E minor / Op 46 No 8 in G minor

 

 

We close our Summer Festival with a concert featuring some of the most well-known, memorable works of the classical repertoire.

Good friend of the festival, the ‘virtuoso of the arts’ Matthew Sharp joins the orchestra for one of Elgar’s best-loved works, his wistful, emotive Cello Concerto, written in the aftermath of the Great War. The concert also features Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ Symphony, which, during its two movements, offers us a “complete, essential, and mysterious symphonic experience” (Tom Service, The Guardian). Book-ending these celebrated works are a selection of Dvořák’s lively, joyous Slavonic Dances, full of national character and guaranteed to lift the audience at the start of the concert, then send them home exhilarated.