Conductor: Alasdair Jamieson
Leader: Claire Jowett

PROGRAMME

Saturday 31st March, 2012 at 8 p.m.
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York

Elgar: Froissart
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on themes of Weber
MacCunn: Diarmid: Prelude to Act IV (first moedern performance)
Glazunov: Symphony no.5 in B flat

More chivalry features in Elgar’s concert overture that evokes the 14th century as seen through the
chronicles of the eponymous writer. In 1902 Elgar wrote incidental music to Yeats’ play Diarmuid and
Grania, but five years earlier Hamish MacCunn had written a grand opera on the Celtic subject;
we play the passionate prelude to the last scene. Orchestral fireworks are provided by Hindemith’s
reinterpretation of Weber, replete with percussive tintinnabulations, and Glazunov’s finest symphony,
his 5th – sometimes known as ‘The Heroic’.