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03 March 2024 Worthing (United Kingdom)
Kosmos Ensemble
Worthing Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Gibbons - Assembly Hall
Program Info: Kosmos Ensemble Worthing Symphony Orchestra John Gibbons, conductor
The mesmerising Kosmos Ensemble have redefined the relationship between classical and world music. They share a passion for improvisation, that thrives in Errolyn Wallen’s dazzling Triple Concerto composed especially for this unique trio - violinist Harriet Mackenzie, violist Meg-Rosaleen Hamilton and accordion player Miloš Milivojević.
Miloš also stars as soloist in the Accordion Concerto by Ukrainian composer Igor Shamo, who was born in Kiev in 1925 and served as a medical orderly in WW2. A member of the Union of Soviet Composers from 1948 until his death in 1982, he is best remembered for his popular song that is the unofficial anthem of Kiev.
Grace Williams’s Sea Sketches reflect the coast around her birthplace, Barry Island in South Wales. Born in 1906, she won a scholarship to study at Cardiff University and was then accepted to study at the Royal College of Music in London. Sea Sketches dates from 1944 and was composed in Hampstead. It clearly reflects the composer’s desire to return to her seaside birthplace – which she did in 1946 – and is dedicated to her parents "who had the good sense to set up home on the coast of Glamorgan”.
Parry is most famous for composing Jerusalem. He became director of the Royal College of Music where he significantly raised teaching standards. In the autumn of 1918 he contracted Spanish Flu and died at Knightscroft, Rustington on 7th October 1918. His
Lady Radnor Suite was composed for the pioneering conductor, Lady Radnor and her string orchestra.
Hubert Parry - Lady Radnor’s Suite William Walton - Touch her soft lips (from the 1944 movie by Laurence Olivier (original title: The Chronicle history of King Henry the Fifth with his Battle fought at Agincourt in France) Igor Shamo - Accordion Concerto Grace Williams - Sea Sketches Errolyn Wallen - Triple Concerto Astor Piazolla - Libertango
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