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Chamber Ensemble of London - directed by Peter Fisher (violin) with Margaret Fingerhut (piano)
London Chamber Music Society presents
Add to my Calendar 01-05-2022 18:30 01-05-2022 20:30 36 Chamber Ensemble of London - directed by Peter Fisher (violin) with Margaret Fingerhut (piano) This concert of popular British music for strings opens with an exuberant overture by Handel’s great friend John Christopher Smith (1712-1795). Music by Delius and Vaughan Williams is paired with Clive Jenkins’s entertaining Concertino, with piano soloist Margaret Fingerhut, who also plays in Finzi’s hauntingly elegiac ‘Eclogue’. The concert finishes with Britten’s ever-popular ‘Simple Symphony’ from the 1930s , four highly colourful movements reworked from music he had written as a teenager. Part of the London Chamber Music Society's Sunday Concerts series. More information here: https://www.londonchambermusic.org.uk/ Kings Place, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Kings Place
90 York Way
Kings Cross
London
N1 9AG
England
Programme
John Christopher Smith – The Fairies
Frederick Delius – Legende
Clive Jenkins – Concertino for Piano & Strings
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Concerto Grosso
Gerald Finzi – Eclogue for piano and strings, Op.10
Benjamin Britten – Simple Symphony, Op.4
Performers
Margaret Fingerhut – Piano
Peter Fisher – Conductor / violin
Chamber Ensemble of London
Programme Note
This concert of popular British music for strings opens with an exuberant overture by Handel’s great friend John Christopher Smith (1712-1795). Music by Delius and Vaughan Williams is paired with Clive Jenkins’s entertaining Concertino, with piano soloist Margaret Fingerhut, who also plays in Finzi’s hauntingly elegiac ‘Eclogue’. The concert finishes with Britten’s ever-popular ‘Simple Symphony’ from the 1930s , four highly colourful movements reworked from music he had written as a teenager.
Part of the London Chamber Music Society's Sunday Concerts series.
More information here: https://www.londonchambermusic.org.uk/
