Ryedale Festival: Orchestra of Opera North

Ryedale Festival is coming to Ripon Cathedral with a programme that includes includes Elgar’s Enigma Variations.  The festival welcomes outstanding performers from all over the world to perform a wide-ranging and distinctive programme in the many spectacular venues in and around Ryedale.

Timothy Ridout, viola
Tom Fetherstonehaugh, conductor

Vaughan Williams – Overture: The Wasps
Bliss (orch. Philip Wilby) – Viola Concerto (WORLD PREMIERE)
Coleridge-Taylor – Solemn Prelude
Elgar – Enigma Variations

An evening of English orchestral music in the uplifting surroundings of Ripon Cathedral. A spirited overture by Vaughan Williams sets the stage, leading to the world premiere of Philip Wilby’s orchestration of Bliss’s Viola Concerto, performed by the acclaimed Timothy Ridout. Coleridge-Taylor’s radiant and moving Solemn Prelude, long forgotten and recently rediscovered, offers a moment of poignant beauty before Elgar’s beloved Enigma Variations brings the concert to a triumphant and deeply personal close.

Interval bar

Presented in association with the Bliss Trust and the Bliss Society.