Details
Langley Park Centre for the Performing Arts
South Eden Park Road
Beckenham
London
BR3 3BP
England
Programme
Carl Nielsen – Symphony no.3, Op.27
Richard Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier suite, Trv 227d
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Oboe Concerto
Performers
Adrian Brown – Conductor
Andrew Laing – Leader
Caroline Marwood – oboe
Nicola Ihnatowicz – soprano
Oskar McCarthy – baritone
Bromley Symphony Orchestra
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Programme Note
Nielsen’s 3rd Symphony (the ‘Espansiva’) is light and joyous – not ‘typical’ Nielsen at all. Its famous slow movement, which Nielsen himself described as a ‘landscape Andante,’ uses offstage solo voices to marvellous effect. Vaughan Williams then provides a virtuoso showpiece for principal oboist Caroline Marwood. A folk music-inspired pastorale is followed by a delicate minuet, while the finale is almost a perpetuum mobile – interrupted by some stunningly lyrical passages. The Rosenkavalier suite excerpts moments of Strauss’ greatest masterpiece, including the ‘Presentation of the Rose’ scene, and the most richly textured of the opera’s several waltzes. It concludes with the powerful trio for the Marschallin, Octavian and Sophie – and by the languorous final duet. Not to be missed!