Elgar’s Violin Concerto

Edward ELGAR Violin Concerto
Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No.12 The Year 1917

Alpesh Chauhan conductor
Laurence Jackson violin

 

Celebrated British conductor Alpesh Chauhan and WASO’s beloved Concertmaster Laurence Jackson are a match made in heaven for this evening of extraordinary music.

 

Jackson brings poise and passion to the noble eloquence and poetic beauty of Elgar’s autumnal masterpiece - the greatest of all English violin concertos.

 

Then Chauhan leads WASO’s first performance of Shostakovich’s Twelfth Symphony, a dramatic work that is vivid, urgent and hugely powerful.