From the Soul

The eighth season programme proposes discovering the figure of Alexander Veprik, a Russian composer who was taken to the Gulag and who wrote his Two Poems at death’s door. It is a music full of colour and energy but with great depth, which will be directed by Swiss conductor Christoph-Mathias Mueller, responsible for putting Veprik on the map thanks to a magnificent album that in 2020 received the OPUS Klassik award. As well as Veprik, also present will be Beethoven and the Fidelio Overture, and what is probably the most famous concerto for violin in the British repertoire. Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto is an intensely emotional score that contains echoes of Wagner and has earned itself the reputation of being one of the longest and most difficult concertos of the repertoire. A challenge for which we have invited one of the 21st century's referential violinists and a big friend of our orchestra, Frank Peter Zimmermann.