The East Anglia Chamber Orchestra is delighted to return to the West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge with another exciting, romantic, and demanding programme. Under the baton of Jacques Cohen, the concert will begin with Wagner’s Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Setting the scene of the famous guild’s singing contest and the triumph of true art, the prelude is both pompous and joyous.
The orchestra is then joined by the fabulous Siv Misund: the Norwegian mezzo-soprano whose voice has been described as “heartbreakingly beautiful.” She will bring her warm and luscious timbre to the performance of Elgar’s Sea Pictures. This setting of five poems, written for the Norwich Festival and premiered there in 1899, portrays both the fear and fascination created by the deep.
His Fourth Symphony was Brahms’ last and arguably greatest symphonic masterpiece. Eduard Hanslick described it as “like a dark well; the longer we gaze into it, the more brightly the stars shine back.” Resolutely in E minor, the symphony is a veritable tour de force and both intellectually and emotionally satisfying.
Join us for a wonderful evening of inspiring music-making.
more about East Anglia Chamber Orchestra
The East Anglia Chamber Orchestra (EAChO) was founded in 2010 and has been acclaimed as the best chamber orchestra in the region. The orchestra draws players from around East Anglia, and whilst based in Cambridge, the orchestra performs regularly in other parts of East Anglia: past seasons have seen visits to The Apex in Bury St Edmunds, Ely Cathedral, the new Saffron Hall in Saffron Walden, as well as West Road Concert Hall, St John’s College Chapel, Trinity College Chapel and King’s College Chapel in Cambridge.
EAChO focuses primarily on chamber orchestra repertoire, and most programmes contain a mixture of the familiar and the less well known. The orchestra enjoys the benefit of inviting professional guest conductors and soloists for each of its concerts, who challenge the players to ever increasing heights of achievement.
Recent guest conductors have included Jacques Cohen, Toby Purser, John Paul Jennings, Dominic Grier, Ben Sheen and Mark Austin. Guest soloists have included Dame Evelyn Glennie, Andrew Watkinson, David Cohen, Gülsin Onay, Julien Van Mellearts, Kristine Balanas, Nicholas Daniels, Michael Foyle, Philippa Boyle, Sasha Grynyuk, Leonid Gorokhov and Thomas Kelly. Our regular leader is Jamie Foreman.