THE VIOLA is celebrated in a summer concert by Warwickshire Symphony Orchestra.
WSO will perform a programme celebrating the rich and distinctive sound of the viola, and including Rachmaninov’s magnificent Symphony No 2 in E Minor, at All Saints’ Church in Leamington on Saturday June 13.
Conducted by Roger Coull, the concert features guest soloist Jonathan Barritt in Bruch’s Romanze for Viola and Holst’s Lyric Movement as well as the symphony and Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Greensleeves.
Barritt, a member of the Coull Quartet alongside the orchestra’s conductor Coull, has worked with leading chamber groups including Capricorn, Divertimenti, Raphael, Gaudier and Primavera, and has performed quartet concerts with William Pleeth, James Galway and Kiri Te Kanawa.
He is Professor of Viola at the Royal College of Music and the Junior Academy of Music.
Speaking about the programme, Jonathan said: “The Bruch is full of wonderful, heart-warming melodies. The Holst is a far less accessible work, but one that reveals great strength. So in the upcoming concert we have one ‘comfortable’ easy listening piece and one to slightly stretch the ears.”
Tickets are priced from £15, with half price for students and children. Visit www.wso.org.uk for tickets and full details. The concert starts at 7pm.
