Cambridge Summer Music Festival Finale: London Mozart Players

Britten’s Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, Holst’s St Paul’s Suite and works by Vaughan Williams, Holst and John Rutter, are just some of the much-loved music featured in this exciting Cambridge Summer Music Festival Finale, specially devised by Festival Director Ben Johnson, and presented by radio and television broadcaster Petroc Trelawny. 

The concert celebrates the legacy of the Boyd Neel Orchestra, which gave the premiere performance of Britten’s Serenade for tenor, horn and strings in 1944. Boyd Neel was responsible for commissioning and reviving some of the most beloved and popular chamber works that we know today and this concert gathers together music closely associated with his orchestra. After studying medicine at Cambridge, Boyd Neel followed his passion for music and founded an ensemble of players from the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music. In 1933 the Boyd Neel London String Orchestra (later the Boyd Neel Orchestra) was born.