Bromley Symphony Orchestra Concert - Elgar and Ravel Armistice Centenery Concert

Brahms Tragic Overture 

Butterworth A Shropshire Lad 

Ravel Piano Concerto for Left Hand 
     Soloist Nicholas McCarthy

Elgar Symphony No 2 in E flat major  

In our Armistice Centenary concert, Brahms’ arresting Tragic Overture is followed by Butterworth’s nostalgically lyrical ‘A Shropshire Lad’, written in the shadow of WWI. Ravel’s jazzy and virtuosic Concerto for the Left Hand follows – commissioned by a pianist who lost an arm in the conflict. After the interval we present Elgar’s Second Symphony, composed, as he put it, ‘at fever heat’, one of his most impassioned, intense, and inspiring works.