Holst

The Perfect Fool, Suite

Walton

Façade, Suite

Elgar

The Music Makers

Vasily Petrenko

conductor

Kathryn Rudge

mezzo-soprano

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir

‘We are the music makers, the dreamers of dreams…’ When Elgar wrote The Music Makers he reached deep into his own soul. The result was some of the most sincere and profoundly beautiful music even he ever wrote. If you haven’t heard The Music Makers, you don’t really know Elgar, and Vasily Petrenko, the Choir and Liverpool’s own mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge will strive to get closer than ever to this great but troubled genius. Holst’s devilish little ballet and Walton’s uproarious Façade both go to show that British music is never quite what you expect…