Nicholas Daniel, oboe: with Northern Chamber Orchestra at Heritage Centre, Macclesfield on Saturday 7th December 2019

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

Nicholas Daniel, oboe

with Northern Chamber Orchestra

Part of the Macclesfield Concert Season 2019-20

Add to my Calendar 07-12-2019 19:30 07-12-2019 21:30 36 Nicholas Daniel, oboe We’re pleased to welcome back Nicholas Daniel, who has played many times for us in past seasons; surely among the greatest of BBC Young Musician winners. Vaughan Williams wrote his Oboe Concerto in 1944 at the age of 72 while composing his opera The Pilgrim’s Progress. It has a symphonic feel about it while at the same time virtuosic and beautifully lyrical. Shostakovich wrote his 8th string quartet in Dresden over only 3 days in 1960. It’s an intensely personal piece, using a 4 note motif made from his name while quoting from a number of his own works. There is an incredibly bleak landscape contrasted with terrifying sounds of war. Following this we have Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue in C minor, the adagio alternately dramatic and quite beautiful, preceding a fugue he had composed earlier for two pianos. The concert begins and ends with baroque: Handel’s B minor concerto grosso contains one of his loveliest tunes – the E major Larghetto e piano, and Vivaldi’s C minor concerto is one of his finest. Heritage Centre, Macclesfield DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Heritage Centre
Roe Street
Macclesfield
SK11 6UT
England

Saturday 7th December 2019
7:30 PM

Programme

George Frideric Handel – Concerto Grosso in B minor, Op.6 no.12 (HWV 330)
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Oboe Concerto
Dmitry Shostakovich – Chamber Symphony, Op.110a
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K.546
Antonio Vivaldi – Violin Concerto in C minor, RV 199

Performers

Nicholas Daniel – oboe
Nicholas Ward – Director

Northern Chamber Orchestra

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Programme Note

We’re pleased to welcome back Nicholas Daniel, who has played many times for us in past seasons; surely among the greatest of BBC Young Musician winners. Vaughan Williams wrote his Oboe Concerto in 1944 at the age of 72 while composing his opera The Pilgrim’s Progress. It has a symphonic feel about it while at the same time virtuosic and beautifully lyrical.

Shostakovich wrote his 8th string quartet in Dresden over only 3 days in 1960. It’s an intensely personal piece, using a 4 note motif made from his name while quoting from a number of his own works. There is an incredibly bleak landscape contrasted with terrifying sounds of war. Following this we have Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue in C minor, the adagio alternately dramatic and quite beautiful, preceding a fugue he had composed earlier for two pianos.

The concert begins and ends with baroque: Handel’s B minor concerto grosso contains one of his loveliest tunes – the E major Larghetto e piano, and Vivaldi’s C minor concerto is one of his finest.

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