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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony no.40 in G minor, K.550
Dobrinka Tabakova – Spinning a Yarn
Benedict Mason – Meld
Performers
Alexandra Wood – violin
Stevie Wishart – hurdy-gurdy
Nicholas Collon – Conductor
Chantage
Aurora Orchestra
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Programme Note
Admired by Schumann for its ‘Grecian light and grace’, Mozart’s evergreen Symphony No. 40 combines rhythmic verve and dance-like elegance, streaked with stormy drama. For a performance in Vienna, the composer added parts for two clarinets - an instrument at the time still largely absent from the orchestra. Bulgarian-born Dobrinka Tabakova goes one further in her recent Spinning a Yarn, in which the rustic hurdy-gurdy takes a solo role alongside the violin.
Benedict Mason experiments with much more besides in his BBC commission, Meld - at once an enigma and a spectacle, that confounds what we think of as an orchestra, of a concert, and even of music itself. Prepare to be surprised …!
There will be no interval