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Sunday Concert: Fairfield Halls 50th Anniversary

Fairfield Halls 50th Anniversary

18/11/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Concert, Fairfield Halls 50th Anniversary

John Wilson, the BBC SO and Chorus celebrate the 50th anniversary of Fairfield Halls.

John Wilson conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Croydon's Fairfield Halls. With music by Vaughan Williams, Finzi and Elgar.

From Fairfield Halls, Croydon

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

John Wilson and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform music by Vaughan Williams, Finzi, and Elgar

Vaughan Williams: Overture - The Wasps
Finzi: Clarinet Concerto 
Elgar: The Music Makers

Michael Collins (clarinet) 
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)


John Wilson and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus celebrate the 50th anniversary of Croydon's Fairfield Halls, joined by Michael Collins for Finzi's Clarinet Concerto and mezzo-soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers in Elgar's Music Makers.

In November 1962, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother officially opened the iconic Fairfield Halls in Croydon, attending a gala concert given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Malcolm Sargent, with the legendary violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Fifty years later, almost to the day, the BBC Symphony Orchestra are back to help celebrate Fairfield at 50 in a concert of English music directed by the starry young British conductor, John Wilson. The programme kicks off with Ralph Vaughan Williams's busily buzzing overture to his incidental music for Aristophanes's play, The Wasps. Distinguished British clarinettist Michael Collins then joins the party for Gerald Finzi's Clarinet Concerto - a work he made famous when he played it in the televised final to the first ever BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1978. The concert is rounded off by Edward Elgar's great paean to the art of composition itself: his ode The Music Makers. John Wilson and the BBC Symphony Orchestra are joined by the mezzo-soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers and the massed forces of the BBC Symphony Chorus for a suitably celebratory finale to this 50th anniversary concert.

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