The EAST ANGLIA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA AT WEST ROAD AND THE APEX
Celebrated Conductor Jaques Cohen will take up the baton to steer an ever popular orchestra through a programme of Romantic music. One superb concert -two venues. The East Anglia Chamber Orchestra doubles down on a rich inviting concert at Cambridge ‘s West Road tomorrow, and in the Apex Bury St.Edmund’s on 31st January.
First up is Wagner’s Prelude to Die Meistersingers von Nürenberg.This lyrical piece of High Romantic music a work that swept Wagner to the height of his fame and will captivate today’s audience as it did on its famous opening night.
Next will be Elgar’s Sea Pictures, Op. 37 Here Norwegian mezzo‑soprano Siv Misund, praised for her “heartbreakingly beautiful” voice joins the orchestra to bring his five poems to life. The piece has an East Anglian origin premiered at the Norwich Festival in 1899, Sea Pictures is still among Elgar’s most atmospheric and loved vocal works
The programme concludes with Brahms’s final—and arguably greatest—symphony. Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 - It is a deeply emotional piece descrbed as a ‘deep well’ of intensity. Ambitious. But under the baton of Jaques Cohen a thrilling treat of music empathic power
