Lichfield Festival

During the second year of their residency at the Lichfield Festival in 2019, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales performed two major works featuring “codes” in music: Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto no. 1, with its theme taken from a musical cryptogram of the composer’s initials, and Elgar’s Enigma Variations. Plus Elgar’s sumptuous song cycle Sea Pictures with soloist Polly Leech - all recorded in the sumptuous acoustics of Lichfield Cathedral. This concert marked the the debut appearance with the orchestra of conductor Ainars Rubikis.
Plus choral music by Bruckner and new BBC NOW recordings of Matthew Taylor's 4th Symphony and works by two of Shostakovich's contemporaries, Russian Alexander Veprik and Frenchman Henri Dutilleux.
Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Elgar: Sea Pictures
with Polly Leech (mezzo soprano)
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 107
with Andrei Ionita (cello)
Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op. 36
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ainars Rubikis (conductor)

c.3.25pm
Bruckner: Christus factus est; Os justi; Locus iste
BBC National Chorus of Wales
Adrian Partington (conductor)

c.3.35pm
Matthew Taylor: Symphony No. 4
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Kenneth Woods (conductor)

c.4.05pm
Alexander Veprik: Song of Mourning; Song of Joy
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Christoph-Mathias Mueller (conductor)

c.4.20pm
Dutilleux: Metaboles
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)