Illumination

The ACO conducted by Peter Scholes and with guest soprano Patricia Wright, present a "concert of string favourites":http://www.aco.co.nz/illuminations.php .

The programme features the hallucinogenic Les Illuminations by Benjamin Britten with the stunning Patricia Wright as soloist. The concert opens with Summer by Anthony Young, an audience favourite at its premiere in 2007. String works by Holst and Elgar have unstoppable appeal and the Grosse Fugue by Beethoven is a monument of classical music. It is a piece where the intellectual and emotional power of Beethoven is realised in a single movement for strings.