Conductor

Join us for a celebration of the musical legacy of the Holst family – both Gustav and his exceptionally talented and influential daughter, Imogen.

Imogen worked with Benjamin Britten to establish the longstanding Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk alongside her distinguished composing career. Tonight’s highlights are the folk and baroque–inspired Variations on Loth to Depart and the spectacular but rarely heard Festival Anthem, performed with the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir.

From Gustav we have his St Paul’s Suite. Like Imogen’s Variations on Loth to Depart it’s based on English folk music, but it’s much more boisterous and dense – like the musical equivalent of eating a chocolate cake.

The Holsts: Father & Daughter

Derby Cathedral

Perhaps opera’s most gripping thriller, Puccini’s masterpiece, “Tosca” is a tale of passion, power, jealousy and betrayal where the action unfolds in Rome over a period of just twenty four hours.

Puccini’s Tosca

West Green House Opera

Simple Symphony

Sinfonia Viva

Tosca

West Green House Gardens

St. Paul’s Suite

Introduction & Allegro for Strings

Variations on Loth to Depart 

Allegro Assai

Festival Anthem

Conductor

Alice Farnham

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Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Simple Symphony by Britten

Sinfonia Viva

Conductor in Tosca by Puccini

West Green House Gardens

Conductor in St. Paul’s Suite by Holst

Sinfonia Viva

Conductor in Introduction & Allegro for Strings by Elgar

Sinfonia Viva

Conductor in Variations on Loth to Depart by Holst

Sinfonia Viva

Conductor in Allegro Assai by Holst

Sinfonia Viva

Conductor in Festival Anthem by Holst

Sinfonia Viva

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