Elgar’s beloved Enigma Variations offers audiences a brilliant portrayal of his circle of friends in musical form, while Grieg’s love of the folk tunes of his motherland are celebrated in his Norwegian Dances.

Co-commissioned by the Auckland Philharmonia together with some of the world’s great orchestras, Sir James MacMillan says his brand-new piece, ‘seems to be haunted by other, earlier musical spirits and memories’. It’s written for an orchestra at the top of its game.
 

*Co-commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.