One of the UK’s leading symphony orchestras performs Thea Musgrave’s Phoenix Rising in two concerts with their Chief Conductor Sir Antonio Pappano.  Written in 1997, Phoenix Rising is one of Thea’s most electrifying and adventurous scores: an incandescent trailblazer opening a concert that features other great British repertoire: William Walton's playful yet introspective Viola Concerto with soloist Antoine Tamestit, and Ralph Vaughan Williams' atmospheric portrait, A London Symphony.

Programme: 
Thea Musgrave Phoenix Rising 
William Walton Viola Concerto
Interval
Ralph Vaughan Williams A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2)

The programme will be performed 11 December at the Barbican Centre in London, and then 13 December at Bristol Beacon. The Bristol Performance also includes a pre-concert talk with Jonathan James
at 4pm free with your concert ticket.

These performances are supported by the RPS Thea Musgrave Fund, which champions composers and performers dedicated to contemporary music. RPS Thea Musgrave Performance Grants help performers, ensembles, festivals and venues to put Thea’s music at the heart of their UK programming, and distinctively promote it to captivate audiences. We are grateful to composer Thea Musgrave and her husband, conductor Peter Mark, for their generous support of these grants, and to RPS Members, who make all of our charitable work possible.

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