Holst The Perfect Fool

Rosauro Marimba no.1

Strauss Ein Heldenleben

Marimba - Jordan Ashman

Conductor - Robert Hodge

Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life) is Richard Strauss’s musical autobiography. On the grand scale of his other well-known tone poems, it includes chapters describing his ‘Adversaries’ (music critics) and his ‘Companion’, a capricious solo violin portrait of his wife Pauline. The chapter entitled ‘The Hero’s Works of Peace’ is an extraordinary musical tapestry containing quotations from Strauss’s other masterworks. In the ‘heroic’ key of Eb major (as is Beethoven’s Eroica symphony), this epic work features, in Strauss’s words, ‘very many horns’.

The concert begins with Gustav Holst’s evocative ballet music from his comic opera ‘The Perfect Fool’, and our concerto slot features Cambridge’s own BBC Young Musician 2022, Jordan Ashman, playing Brazilian composer Ney Rosauro’s Marimba concerto.

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