Spring Sunlight

Programme

Elsa Barraine: Symphony No. 2 Voïna

Joaquín Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez

Camille Pépin Un monde nouveau

Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 3

Performers

Ben Glassberg: Conductor

Plínio Fernandes: Guitar

This programme has all the freshness and brilliance of a morning in early Spring.

Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez blazes with Spanish sunlight and passion and has a gorgeously lyrical central movement that has been popularised through diverse arrangements such as Miles Davis’s Sketches of Spain album and the 1996 film Brassed Off!

We also bring a focus to female French composers with a work by Elsa Barraine from the early 20th century that deserves to be much more widely known and a piece by Camille Pépin, one of France’s leading living composers. Sibelius’s luminous Third Symphony sounds like a Finnish forest bursting into leaf and closes the concert.

Pre-Concert Talk