Winter Concert

York Guildhall Orchestra

Programme

• Parry - Blest Pair of Sirens
• Elgar - Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma)
• Mendelssohn - Die erste Walpurgisnacht

Soprano - Sarah Winn

Tenor - Henry Strutt

Baritone - Samuel Snowden

Conductor: Simon Wright

Leader: Fiona Love

Our second concert in the Barbican this season sees the return of Leeds Festival Chorus. They will perform in the first and last pieces - the Parry, and the mighty Mendelssohn oratorio, his setting of a poem by Goethe, with the choir joined by three wonderful soloists from the RNCM. The Mendelssohn composition may not be that well known, but it is a superb work that puts all the performers on their mettle! Elgar makes an appearance, this time with a favourite orchestral showpiece, the 'Enigma Variations'