Chester Philharmonic's End of Season Concert: Life and Death in Music at Chester Cathedral, Chester on Saturday 29th June 2019

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Chester Philharmonic's End of Season Concert

Life and Death in Music

Add to my Calendar 29-06-2019 19:30 29-06-2019 21:30 36 Chester Philharmonic's End of Season Concert How better to close our Season of Life and Death in music than to hear these three very unusual, yet well known, pieces of (fairly) modern classical music.  The Hindemith, with possibly the longest title in the musical repertoire, was composed in 1940 ans is tuneful with toe tapping exuberance. Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto was composed in 1959  Folk tunes form some of the themes and there is even a reference to Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death. The Prokofiev is probably the best known of all the contributions to this evenings concert. It is surprisingly the oldest of the three pieces being composed as far back as 1935. The music is of course programmatic and tells the story of Romeo and Juliet in musical form. The fight between the Montagues and Capulets is of course very well known as the introductory theme to the BBC Programme “The Apprentice”. Our soloist Findlay Spence is a young up and coming star from Scotland. He is currently Cellist and Composer studying at the Royal College of Music in London. Musician in Residence at St. Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge. Chester Cathedral, Chester DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Chester Cathedral
Saint Werburgh Street
Chester
Cheshire
CH1 2DY
England

Saturday 29th June 2019
7:30 PM

Programme

Paul Hindemith – Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Dmitry Shostakovich – Cello Concerto no.1 in E flat major, Op.107
Sergey Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet (2nd suite): Montagues and Capulets
Sergey Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet (1st suite), Op.64bis

Performers

Findlay Spence – Violoncello
Marco Bellasi – Conductor

Chester Philharmonic Orchestra

Programme Note

How better to close our Season of Life and Death in music than to hear these three very unusual, yet well known, pieces of (fairly) modern classical music. The Hindemith, with possibly the longest title in the musical repertoire, was composed in 1940 ans is tuneful with toe tapping exuberance. Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto was composed in 1959 Folk tunes form some of the themes and there is even a reference to Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death. The Prokofiev is probably the best known of all the contributions to this evenings concert. It is surprisingly the oldest of the three pieces being composed as far back as 1935. The music is of course programmatic and tells the story of Romeo and Juliet in musical form. The fight between the Montagues and Capulets is of course very well known as the introductory theme to the BBC Programme “The Apprentice”. Our soloist Findlay Spence is a young up and coming star from Scotland. He is currently Cellist and Composer studying at the Royal College of Music in London. Musician in Residence at St. Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge.

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