Sep 24

ELGAR’S CELLO CONCERTO - Master 7

With Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Claude Debussy and 4 more artists at Adelaide Town Hall

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Date

Saturday 24 September 2016 at 6:30pm

Location

Adelaide Town Hall
Adelaide, Australia

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http://www.aso.com.au/products/2016/classical/elgar-s-cello-concerto-master-7

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Debussy - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Elgar - Cello Concerto
Prokofiev - Symphony No 5

It’s lost, and you’ll never get it back…

Near the beginning of Elgar’s Cello Concerto, a soft melody circles in the emptiness like a falling autumn leaf. This was Elgar’s last substantial composition, written at the end of the First World War, saturated with a poignant nostalgia for a world that was gone forever. Only a cello, played here by our own Simon Cobcroft, can convey such sepia melancholy.

Debussy’s Prélude a l’après midi d’un faune changed the course of music history. Each chord is tinged with pleasure, reluctant to move on, just as an awakening faun tries to hold on to his daydream of beautiful nymphs.

Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony dates from the end of the Second World War, and is an outwardly buoyant celebration of the Russians’ imminent victory. Prokofiev’s melodies are winningly affirmative and cheerful… but is their noisy culmination a tad too violent, or just raucous fun?

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