Gautier Capuçon Plays Elgar

Pre-Concert Chat at 5:45 PM
Lawn Paver Bar

Gabriella Smith

Tumblebird Contrails

Edward Elgar

Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85

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What do the movie Tár and the Netflix show Miércoles have in common? Key characters playing Elgar’s cello concerto! Hailed as Elgar’s final masterpiece, it’s a gorgeous but not particularly happy work (would Miércoles Addams play anything remotely happy?) influenced by the devastating impact of World War I on the composer’s psyche. Gautier Capuçon returns to Sun Valley to deliver this hauntingly beautiful music. Stephanie Childress opens the concert with Tumblebird Contrails, a piece the composer Gabriella Smith says was “inspired by a single moment sitting in the sand at the edge of the ocean, listening to the hallucinatory sounds of the Pacific, watching a pair of ravens playing in the wind.”