Royal Northern Sinfonia Chamber Concert: The Joy of Six at Middlesbrough Town Hall, Middlesbrough on Thursday 13th January 2022

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Royal Northern Sinfonia Chamber Concert

The Joy of Six

Add to my Calendar 13-01-2022 19:30 13-01-2022 21:30 36 Royal Northern Sinfonia Chamber Concert Royal Northern Sinfonia are proud to present The Joy of Six, celebrating all things sextet! We start the night off with one of Beethoven’s early chamber works, the Sextet in Eb Major. The RNS horn section will be first in the spotlight, as the piece is well-known for its two virtuosic (and notoriously tricky!) horn parts, alongside a string quartet. Helen Grime’s Into the Faded Air will quickly transport us back into the twenty-first century, its second movement features a dramatic duet for two violas before launching into the final movement full of rhythmic intensity and pizzicati (plucking of strings). Benjamin Britten’s Movement for Wind Sextet was the only piece he wrote for wind instruments alone, at the tender age of 16! It’s written for the unusual combination of flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, horn, and bassoon, giving the wind players of RNS an opportunity to shine. To finish off the Joy of Six, we turn to a hero of Britten’s, Johannes Brahms. His String Sextet No.2 in G Major is full of sweeping romantic melodies, including a concealed reference to soprano Agathe von Siebold, her first name being spelled out in the second theme of the first movement. Middlesbrough Town Hall, Middlesbrough DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Middlesbrough Town Hall
Albert Road
Middlesbrough
North Yorkshire
TS1 2QJ
England

Thursday 13th January 2022
7:30 PM

Programme

Ludwig van Beethoven – Sextet in E-flat major, Op.71
Helen Grime – Into The Faded Air
~ Interval ~
Benjamin Britten – Movement for wind sextet
Johannes Brahms – String Sextet no.2 in G major, Op.36

Performers

Royal Northern Sinfonia

Programme Note

Royal Northern Sinfonia are proud to present The Joy of Six, celebrating all things sextet!

We start the night off with one of Beethoven’s early chamber works, the Sextet in Eb Major. The RNS horn section will be first in the spotlight, as the piece is well-known for its two virtuosic (and notoriously tricky!) horn parts, alongside a string quartet. Helen Grime’s Into the Faded Air will quickly transport us back into the twenty-first century, its second movement features a dramatic duet for two violas before launching into the final movement full of rhythmic intensity and pizzicati (plucking of strings).

Benjamin Britten’s Movement for Wind Sextet was the only piece he wrote for wind instruments alone, at the tender age of 16! It’s written for the unusual combination of flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, horn, and bassoon, giving the wind players of RNS an opportunity to shine.

To finish off the Joy of Six, we turn to a hero of Britten’s, Johannes Brahms. His String Sextet No.2 in G Major is full of sweeping romantic melodies, including a concealed reference to soprano Agathe von Siebold, her first name being spelled out in the second theme of the first movement.

Royal Northern Sinfonia Chamber Ensemble

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