City of London Sinfonia October 2010

CLS teams up with new Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Stephen Layton in a programme featuring the best of British with a hauntingly beautiful guitar concerto by 'newly discovered' Latvian composer Eriks Esenvalds.  The programme closes with Constant Lambert’s popular take on the jazz idiom.

Holst, Brook Green Suite
Walton, Two Pieces from Henry V
Britten, Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
Esenvalds, Songs of Silence (concerto for Guitar and Strings)
Lambert, Rio Grande

Stephen Layton - Conductor
Craig Ogden – Guitar
Martin Roscoe – Piano
Holst Singers

Pre-Concert talk at 6.45 pm