Accent on Youth Concert: 4 youthful local soloists to entertain you at All Saints Church, Sheffield on Saturday 10th May 2025

Accent on Youth Concert

4 youthful local soloists to entertain you

Add to my Calendar 10-05-2025 19:30 10-05-2025 21:30 36 Accent on Youth Concert Emma Rae Ward will be singing from the “Chants d'Auvergne" a collection of folk songs arranged for soprano voice and orchestra by Joseph Canteloube.  Under summer skies, the Auvergne is a land of skylarks, butterflies and lush carpets of wildflowers. This all comes across in the lilting strains of these folk songs including the famous Baïlèro. Cellist Perris Heath is playing Fauré’s Élégie. Said to be one of the last works in which the composer allowed himself to express pathos so directly, expressed at the outset with its sad and somber elegiac theme. Mabel Bailey will delight on her flute with a Ballade by Carl Reinecke. Reinecke was a highly influential and versatile musician — musically, think Robert Schumann (one of his teachers together with Mendelssohn and Liszt) and you’ll get the idea. The Ballade is charming and tuneful — Reinecke understood the instrument very well — he may not have set the world on its ear, but he was an expert musician. Daniella Arnold joins us to share Massenet’s “Méditation”.  The piece was originally composed as a symphonic intermezzo from the opera Thaïs at the moment when Thaïs is meditating on the idea of leaving her life of luxury and pleasure to find salvation through God. In addition to this feast, the orchestra will be playing Bonis’s Bourrée and Mendelssohn’s first Symphony. Mélanie Hélène "Mel" Bonis (21 January 1858 – 18 March 1937) was a prolific French late-Romantic composer.  The Bourrée that you’ll hear tonight is from a "suite in the ancient style” — It’s a short piece with a mysteriously playful mood, beautifully and subtly orchestrated. Mendelssohn’s composed his first symphony at the age of 15!  The première was in London in 1829 and the review from “The Harmonicon” includes “... Fertility of invention and novelty of effect, are what first strike the hearers of M. Mendelssohn's symphony; but at the same time, the melodiousness of its subjects, the vigour with which these are supported, the gracefulness of the slow movement, the playfulness of some parts, and the energy of others, are all felt…."   All Saints Church, Sheffield DD/MM/YYYY

Details

All Saints Church
Ringinglow Road
Ecclesall
Sheffield
S11 7PP
England

Saturday 10th May 2025
7:30 PM

Tickets

Prices: £12/£6
Book Tickets

Programme

Mel Bonis – Bourrée
Gabriel Fauré – Elegie for Cello and Orchestra in C minor, Op.24 (orch. 1890)
Jules Massenet – Thais: Meditation
Carl Reinecke – Ballade, Op.288
Joseph Canteloube – Chants d'Auvergne
Felix Mendelssohn – String Symphony no.1 in C major, MWV N 1

Performers

Perris Heath – Cello
Mabel Bailey – flute
Daniella Arnold – violin
Emma Rae Ward – soprano
Ian Naylor – Conductor

Sheffield Chamber Orchestra

Programme Note

Emma Rae Ward will be singing from the “Chants d'Auvergne" a collection of folk songs arranged for soprano voice and orchestra by Joseph Canteloube. Under summer skies, the Auvergne is a land of skylarks, butterflies and lush carpets of wildflowers. This all comes across in the lilting strains of these folk songs including the famous Baïlèro.

Cellist Perris Heath is playing Fauré’s Élégie. Said to be one of the last works in which the composer allowed himself to express pathos so directly, expressed at the outset with its sad and somber elegiac theme.

Mabel Bailey will delight on her flute with a Ballade by Carl Reinecke. Reinecke was a highly influential and versatile musician — musically, think Robert Schumann (one of his teachers together with Mendelssohn and Liszt) and you’ll get the idea. The Ballade is charming and tuneful — Reinecke understood the instrument very well — he may not have set the world on its ear, but he was an expert musician.

Daniella Arnold joins us to share Massenet’s “Méditation”. The piece was originally composed as a symphonic intermezzo from the opera Thaïs at the moment when Thaïs is meditating on the idea of leaving her life of luxury and pleasure to find salvation through God.

In addition to this feast, the orchestra will be playing Bonis’s Bourrée and Mendelssohn’s first Symphony.

Mélanie Hélène "Mel" Bonis (21 January 1858 – 18 March 1937) was a prolific French late-Romantic composer. The Bourrée that you’ll hear tonight is from a "suite in the ancient style” — It’s a short piece with a mysteriously playful mood, beautifully and subtly orchestrated.

Mendelssohn’s composed his first symphony at the age of 15! The première was in London in 1829 and the review from “The Harmonicon” includes “... Fertility of invention and novelty of effect, are what first strike the hearers of M. Mendelssohn's symphony; but at the same time, the melodiousness of its subjects, the vigour with which these are supported, the gracefulness of the slow movement, the playfulness of some parts, and the energy of others, are all felt…."

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