JUST four days after Remembrance Sunday, conductor Mark Biggins will lead Petersfield Orchestra in a programme featuring pieces by four English composers, each of whom was engaged in the conflict in one way or another.
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Looking back on 2025: The stories that shaped Haslemere Centrepiece is the Third Symphony by Ralph Vaughan Williams who was a stretcher-bearer in the trenches.
In his Cello Concerto of 1919, Edward Elgar created one of the great elegies for the fallen, one which positively aches with melancholy and loss. Soloist will be rising star Joy Lisney, whose family are closely associated with Hindhead Music Centre.
Two shorter works are also to be heard: George Butterworth was a close friend of Vaughan Williams and was killed on the Somme in 1916. His short work Banks of Green Willow takes a familiar folk tune and transforms it. Gustav Holst helped with musical entertainment for troops based in Greece. His Somerset Rhapsody also uses folk tunes and speaks vividly of an England that disappeared for ever.
Tickets are on sale online and from One Tree Books in Lavant Street, Petersfield, at £18, £16 and £1 for under 18s.