Flanders Symphony Orchestra

From Flanders looking westwards across the Channel, and eastwards to Bohemia's hills and forests, this is a concert inspired by nature.

Butterworth and Vaughan Williams' sumptuous works were set in motion by English poetry. But in a richly burnished orchestral tone poem, and in Vaughan Williams' ever-popular, ravishing violin rhapsody, you can almost smell the warm earth, hear the dawn chorus and imagine yourself bathing in the still, sweet air of the English countryside.

Dvorak loved the great outdoors and frequently drew strength and inspiration from his natural surroundings. His symphony, from its glorious full-throated opening cello song to its boisterous, whooping finale, is him at his most genial and bucolic. Mozart's final violin concerto sees him at his most impishly good-humoured.

Programme: Butterworth A Shropshire Lad Rhapsody for Orchestra; Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major K.219; Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending; Dvorak Symphony No. 8. Duncan Ward conductor, Alexandra Soumm violin, Flanders Symphony Orchestra.