Winter Festival 2 - A Terrible Beauty – English String Music, 1900 to 1939
Temple Church, EC4Y 7BB , [Venue Details]A Terrible Beauty explores the extraordinary flowering of English string music in the first decades of the twentieth century — music of radiant lyricism and haunting emotional depth, written in the shadow of a rapidly changing world.
Performed by the newly formed LoVE (London Virtuosi Ensemble) under the direction of Rachael Montésino Young, who has regularly assisted world-renowned conductor Paavo Järvi in concerts and recordings, this programme brings together some of the most evocative and beloved works in the English string repertoire.
At its heart lies a profound sense of beauty touched by fragility. Composed between the final years of the Edwardian era and the uncertain decades between two world wars, these works reflect a society poised between nostalgia and modernity, serenity and upheaval. The soaring lines of Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis seem to suspend time itself, while the aching tenderness of Elgar’s Sospiri and Elegy speaks of loss, remembrance and longing.
Frank Bridge’s elegant Valse–Intermezzo captures the glittering surface of a vanished world, and Michael Tippett’s exhilarating Concerto for Double String Orchestra bursts forth with rhythmic vitality, yet beneath its energy lies an undercurrent of tension and unease, hinting at the uncertainties and gathering shadows of a world on the brink of conflict.
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Admission
Min: £16.17
Max: £48.51
Performer name: Dame Harriet Walter*, London Virtuosi Ensemble
Other key names: George Hlawiczka (leader), Rachael Montesino Young (conductor)
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Winter Festival 2 - A Terrible Beauty – English String Music, 1900 to 1939
Tuesday, 1 Dec 2026 @7.30pm
Temple Church, EC4Y 7BBMore Information
A Terrible Beauty explores the extraordinary flowering of English string music in the first decades of the twentieth century — music of radiant lyricism and haunting emotional depth, written in the shadow of a rapidly changing world.
Performed by the newly formed LoVE (London Virtuosi Ensemble) under the direction of Rachael Montésino Young, who has regularly assisted world-renowned conductor Paavo Järvi in concerts and recordings, this programme brings together some of the most evocative and beloved works in the English string repertoire.
At its heart lies a profound sense of beauty touched by fragility. Composed between the final years of the Edwardian era and the uncertain decades between two world wars, these works reflect a society poised between nostalgia and modernity, serenity and upheaval. The soaring lines of Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis seem to suspend time itself, while the aching tenderness of Elgar’s Sospiri and Elegy speaks of loss, remembrance and longing.
Frank Bridge’s elegant Valse–Intermezzo captures the glittering surface of a vanished world, and Michael Tippett’s exhilarating Concerto for Double String Orchestra bursts forth with rhythmic vitality, yet beneath its energy lies an undercurrent of tension and unease, hinting at the uncertainties and gathering shadows of a world on the brink of conflict.
Admission
Min: £16.17
Max: £48.51
Performer name: Dame Harriet Walter*, London Virtuosi Ensemble
Other key names: George Hlawiczka (leader), Rachael Montesino Young (conductor)
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