John Rutter conducts all‐English programme

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John Rutter’s craftsmanship as one of the UK’s leading composers has won him critical acclaim all over the world.

This concert features not only John Rutter’s infectious works but also some warm‐hearted evocative music that includes The Lark Ascending, a wonderfully soaring and poignant piece that features a free‐flying violin solo. Folksong (albeit Henry VIII may have written the indelible tune that is Greensleeves!) and nature play a vital role in this concert, one of pastoral hue and gentle melody, with Elgar’s masterly Introduction and Allegro, not without its own wistful qualities, adding ballast to a programme that reminds just how ‘green and pleasant’ England is and how wondrously beautiful and vital is this country’s core of indigenous song and dance.

'People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North.'

Edward Elgar, Letter to Canon Gorton, organizer of the Morecambe Music Festival, published in The Musical Times, July 1903.