Bath Symphony Orchestra

Guest Conductor: Emilie Godden

Guitar: Craig Ogden

Bath Symphony Orchestra is delighted to welcome guitar virtuoso Craig Ogden to play the concerto written for him by British composer and guitar player William Lovelady, who has worked with many of the world’s leading players and collaborated with such artists as Art Garfunkel, Hugh Masekela and Julian Lloyd Webber.  Opening the programme is the charming and melodic Petite Suite de Concert by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, an African-English composer who worked with Elgar and Stanford.  William Walton’s epic Symphony No. 1 provides a monumental finale, running the emotional gamut from rage and bitterness, through melancholy to exultation and triumph.