Brandenburg Concertos by Candlelight: with the London Concertante at Sheffield Cathedral, Sheffield on Saturday 17th March 2018

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Brandenburg Concertos by Candlelight

with the London Concertante

Part of the London Concertante by Candlelight 2018 Series

Add to my Calendar 17-03-2018 19:30 17-03-2018 21:30 36 Brandenburg Concertos by Candlelight London Concertante was founded in 1991 and has gone on to garner an outstanding international reputation. Alongside regular series of concerts at St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Southwark Cathedral, the ensemble also performs across the length and breadth of the UK. International tours have taken them to the USA, Spain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Finland, and they will be touring to Italy and again to Spain later in the year. Their numerous recordings receive regular airplay on global radio stations, and has helped to secure their position at the forefront of Classical performers in the UK.   The Brandenburg concertos are iconic works for their groundbreaking use of instrument combinations and musical development that ultimately changed the course of music history. While Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 features bursts of dazzling technical difficulty from the violinist, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 has often been referred to as the first harpsichord concerto ever written, with a particularly exciting and immensely virtuosic passage of solo writing at the end of the first movement, featuring a rapid succession of twists and turns that require the most gifted of performers to master.  Handel’s luxurious Concerto Grosso compliments these works by Bach magnificently, with a sumptuous, although remarkably short, opening slow movement that leads onto a daringly simple melody before returning to a sublimely expansive middle movement.  The other two pieces in the evenings programme present the contrasting characters of Mozart, with the enigmatic and playful outer movements of the Divertimento in D and a more introvert, wistful flute melody in the middle movement of the Flute Quartet with an inspired accompaniment of plucked strings.   If you don’t consider yourself ‘in the know’ about Mozart, Beethoven, or Bach, fear not, this is the orchestra for you. The London Concertante boasts a remarkable audience record in which an impressive 50% of spectators are first time classical concert goers! The London Concertante has its audience laughing at jokes, gasping at virtuosity, moved by gorgeous string playing, and leaving with a smile on their faces.   “Beautiful music. Amazing experience.” – A happy audience member! (March 2017)“beautiful... [the] experience was fantastic... simply magical.” – Another happy audience member! (September 2017)“They play with tone as soft as velvet, bow strokes that really sing and a Romanticist's wide volume range” – Evening Standard For more information and tickets head to: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/FEJFJJ Sheffield Cathedral, Sheffield DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Sheffield Cathedral
Church Street
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S1 1HA
England

Saturday 17th March 2018
7:30 PM

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Divertimento in D major, K.136/125a
Johann Sebastian Bach – Brandenburg Concerto no.4 in G major, BWV 1049
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Flute Quartet in D major, K.285
George Frideric Handel – Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op.6 no.7 (HWV 325)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Brandenburg Concerto no.5 in D major, BWV 1050

Performers

Ben Norris – violin / director
David Wright – harpsichord
Julian Sperry – flute

London Concertante

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Programme Note

London Concertante was founded in 1991 and has gone on to garner an outstanding international reputation. Alongside regular series of concerts at St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Southwark Cathedral, the ensemble also performs across the length and breadth of the UK. International tours have taken them to the USA, Spain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Finland, and they will be touring to Italy and again to Spain later in the year. Their numerous recordings receive regular airplay on global radio stations, and has helped to secure their position at the forefront of Classical performers in the UK.

The Brandenburg concertos are iconic works for their groundbreaking use of instrument combinations and musical development that ultimately changed the course of music history. While Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 features bursts of dazzling technical difficulty from the violinist, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 has often been referred to as the first harpsichord concerto ever written, with a particularly exciting and immensely virtuosic passage of solo writing at the end of the first movement, featuring a rapid succession of twists and turns that require the most gifted of performers to master. Handel’s luxurious Concerto Grosso compliments these works by Bach magnificently, with a sumptuous, although remarkably short, opening slow movement that leads onto a daringly simple melody before returning to a sublimely expansive middle movement. The other two pieces in the evenings programme present the contrasting characters of Mozart, with the enigmatic and playful outer movements of the Divertimento in D and a more introvert, wistful flute melody in the middle movement of the Flute Quartet with an inspired accompaniment of plucked strings.

If you don’t consider yourself ‘in the know’ about Mozart, Beethoven, or Bach, fear not, this is the orchestra for you. The London Concertante boasts a remarkable audience record in which an impressive 50% of spectators are first time classical concert goers! The London Concertante has its audience laughing at jokes, gasping at virtuosity, moved by gorgeous string playing, and leaving with a smile on their faces.

“Beautiful music. Amazing experience.”
– A happy audience member! (March 2017)

“beautiful... [the] experience was fantastic... simply magical.”
– Another happy audience member! (September 2017)

“They play with tone as soft as velvet, bow strokes that really sing and a Romanticist's wide volume range”
– Evening Standard

For more information and tickets head to: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/FEJFJJ

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