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Elgar and Vaughan Williams

Thu / Apr 4, 2024 - 8:00PM

A sharp contrast of resilience and hope from Vaughan Williams and despair from Elgar.

About this Performance

Leading Australian conductor Simone Young leads the LA Phil in the wild display of unconventional forms that is Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Eighth Symphony. The shortest of his symphonies, the Eighth shows Vaughan Williams fashioning a refined and cultured English dreamscape while searching for a theme and dedicating entire movements to winds and strings. Considered to be his most raw and emotional composition, Elgar’s dark and dramatic response to the end of World War I—and his own life—is richly blended together by the bow of French cellist and LA Phil favorite Gautier Capuçon.

Concerts in the Thursday 2 subscription series are generously supported by the Otis Booth Foundation.

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