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North London Sinfonia Winter Concert

Add to my Calendar 30-11-2019 19:00 30-11-2019 21:00 36 North London Sinfonia Winter Concert Our winter concert this year focusses on music from central Europe, particularly by Czech composers. Dvořák’s vivid and dramatic Symphony No. 7 is considered by many to be his finest, despite the greater popularity of the 9th, ‘From the New World’. Inspired by the struggle for Czech nationhood and pervaded by characteristically Bohemian melodic and rhythmic material, the symphony was actually commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society and performed in their 1885 season under the composer’s direction at the now vanished St. James’s Hall on Piccadilly. Mozart had close contacts with the Bohemian musicians of his day and held that the Prague audiences appreciated his music more than any others. In fact, the first of several Prague memorial services and concerts given after his early death in 1791 was attended by thousands and featured a lavish Requiem mass performed by over a hundred musicians who accepted no pay for their efforts. We are delighted to welcome violinist Lisa Ueda and her violist husband Ian Byrne Brito as soloists in his sublime Sinfonia Concertante. Bohuslav Martinů spent much of his eventful life away from his homeland, but there remains something essentially and indefinably Czech in all his mature music. He inherited Dvořák’s mastery of orchestral colour and studied for a while with the latter’s great protégé and son-in-law Josef Suk, before leaving for Paris in the 1920s. His rarely-heard and modestly titled Overture dates from his final years of exile, spent mostly in France and Switzerland. Written in Nice in 1953 it displays his love of Baroque music with buoyant Handelian statements contrasting with intricate passages for several solo instruments. Hampstead Garden Suburb Free Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Hampstead Garden Suburb Free Church
North Square
Hampstead

London
NW11 7AA
England


Programme

Bohuslav MartinůOverture, H.345 (1953)
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartSinfonia concertante in E-flat major, K.364/320d
Antonin DvorakSymphony no.7 in D minor, Op.70

Performers

Owen Leech – Conductor
Ian Byrne Brito – viola
Lisa Ueda – Violin

North London Sinfonia

Programme Note

Our winter concert this year focusses on music from central Europe, particularly by Czech composers. Dvořák’s vivid and dramatic Symphony No. 7 is considered by many to be his finest, despite the greater popularity of the 9th, ‘From the New World’. Inspired by the struggle for Czech nationhood and pervaded by characteristically Bohemian melodic and rhythmic material, the symphony was actually commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society and performed in their 1885 season under the composer’s direction at the now vanished St. James’s Hall on Piccadilly.

Mozart had close contacts with the Bohemian musicians of his day and held that the Prague audiences appreciated his music more than any others. In fact, the first of several Prague memorial services and concerts given after his early death in 1791 was attended by thousands and featured a lavish Requiem mass performed by over a hundred musicians who accepted no pay for their efforts. We are delighted to welcome violinist Lisa Ueda and her violist husband Ian Byrne Brito as soloists in his sublime Sinfonia Concertante.

Bohuslav Martinů spent much of his eventful life away from his homeland, but there remains something essentially and indefinably Czech in all his mature music. He inherited Dvořák’s mastery of orchestral colour and studied for a while with the latter’s great protégé and son-in-law Josef Suk, before leaving for Paris in the 1920s. His rarely-heard and modestly titled Overture dates from his final years of exile, spent mostly in France and Switzerland. Written in Nice in 1953 it displays his love of Baroque music with buoyant Handelian statements contrasting with intricate passages for several solo instruments.

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