Performance on 3 - 14/07/2008

Petroc Trelawny presents a programme of folk-inspired music performed by the Manchester Camerata at the 2008 Cheltenham Festival. Including Rautavaara's The Fiddlers, a suite based on 17th century fiddlers' tunes, Bartok's Divertimento, giving Hungarian folk music a modern twist, music from one of Bartok's pupils, Sandor Veress, as well as English music by Vaughan Williams and Holst. Manchester Camerata Gordan Nikolitch (director) Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Rautavaara: The Fiddlers Holst: St Paul's Suite Sibelius: Rakastava Bartok: Divertimento Veress: Transylvanian Stamping Dance.