Join us in RBAI's Common Hall on Saturday 21st March for our "Orchestral Masterpieces" concert, our annual tribute to our founder Dr. Havelock Nelson and our longest-serving conductor David Openshaw.
The programme includes:
Elgar - Froissart overture
Mozart - Clarinet Concerto (soloist - William Curran)
Amy Beach - Gaelic Symphony
Conductor: Tanya Houghton
Leader: Zuzanna Edmonds
Froissart, Op. 19, is a concert overture by Edward Elgar, inspired by the 14th-century Chronicles of Jean Froissart. Elgar was first attracted to the Chronicles after finding mention of them in Walter Scott's Old Mortality.
Froissart was composed in 1890 to the commission of the Worcester Festival, for a secular concert during that year's Three Choirs Festival, and was Elgar's first large-scale work for full orchestra.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622, was completed in October 1791 for the clarinettist Anton Stadler. It consists of three movements, in a fast–slow–fast succession.
Allegro (in A major and in sonata form)
Adagio (in D major and in ternary form)
Rondo: Allegro (in A major)
The work was completed a few weeks before the composer's death. and was to be his second to last completed work, The date of its first performance is not certain, but may have been 16 October 1791 in Prague.
Gaelic Symphony or Symphony in E minor, Op. 32 was written by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach in 1894; it was the first symphony composed and published by a female American composer. The piece debuted in Boston on Friday, October 30, 1896 to "public and journalistic acclaim." Beach drew inspiration for the large orchestral work from Irish melodies; thus, she subtitled the work 'Gaelic.'
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