Dorset Chamber Orchestra Concert

Chabrier’s España opens a programme exploring the many ways in which Spanish music has inspired composers. Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte offers a very different, more stylised vision of Spain, before Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez, with its distinctive guitar writing, brings an authentic Spanish voice to the concert.The soloist is the prize-winning guitarist from Luxembourg, Eva Victoria Schockmel. After the interval, Massenet’s El Cid Ballet Suite and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol continue the exploration of the vivid colours and rhythms that have long fascinated composers beyond Spain itself.