Sun 22 Jun
|London
VE Day Celebratory Concert:Elgar Sinfonia of London
Time & Location
22 Jun 2025, 16:30 – 20:30
London, Holborn Viaduct, City of London, London EC4A 3AF, UK
About the event
The Elgar Sinfonia on June 22nd will perform a special concert acknowledging the 80th VE Day Celebrations in the beautiful spiritual setting of St Andrew’s Holborn, London
The music will be reflective, respectful of the sacrifice, moving and celebratory.
Elgar wrote his choral work ‘The Spirit of England’ during WW 1 setting the poems from ‘The Winnowing Fan’ by Binyon that have become part of our national experience of mourning. Elgar wrote music deeply felt about the very day the War started, the Women left behind and the memory of the end of the conflict. It resonates as a reminder of the tragedy of all wars. That Binyon wrote these poems of such profundity is even more astonishing given their date; Autumn 1914- so prophetic.
The magnificent settings of Psalms 29 and 48 are grand and celebratory, composed for special services in St Paul’s Cathedral. The drama of the words is…