Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Radio Choir performing Delius’ A Song of the High Hills
Friday
23:00 - 23:30
Grote Zaal - TivoliVredenburg
As prominent as the English are in pop music, their role in symphonic music is modest. At most about five composers have made a bit of a name for themselves. These include Frederick Delius. The English conductor Sir Mark Elder is the specialist in the world when it comes to this repertoire. With a large orchestra and choir (about 150 people), he performs Delius’ masterpiece ‘A Song of the High Hills’, from 1920. Delius himself explained: “I have tried to express the joy and rapture felt in the High Mountains and to depict the lonely melancholy of the highest altitudes of the wide expanses. The vocal parts typify Man in Nature.”