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Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace
Sloane Square, Belgravia
London
SW1X 9DQ
England
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Serenade in C minor, K.388/384a
Richard Strauss – Suite in B flat major for 13 wind instruments, Op.4
Performers
Michael Collins – Conductor
London Winds
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Programme Note
Richard Strauss was just 20 when he composed his Suite ' and steeped in the conservative musical traditions of his horn-player father, who revered Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven above all. Its a legacy present here in the young Strausss music, but developed and transformed into something altogether more rich and strange.
Clarinettist Michael Collins and his ensemble London Winds set Strauss and his favourite composer, Mozart, side by side, presenting their very different takes on the 18th-century 'Harmonie ensemble of wind instruments, and revealing the early seeds of Strausss signature lyricism that would eventually flower in Der Rosenkavalier.