Fidelio Orchestra: 'Meditations': Marcello, Bacewicz, and Strauss at St Andrew's Church, London on Thursday 20th February 2025

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Fidelio Orchestra: 'Meditations'

Marcello, Bacewicz, and Strauss

Add to my Calendar 20-02-2025 19:00 20-02-2025 21:00 36 Fidelio Orchestra: 'Meditations' As the opening concert for the 2025 concert series, experience the Fidelio Orchestra in a round for an atmospheric performance of music spanning more than two centuries. Only twenty-five people making music in an intimate setting in the dimly lit Church of St Andrew’s Holborn. The string orchestra is joined by soloist Laura Wallace.  From the meditative genre-defining melodies of Alessandro Marcello’s oboe concerto, for years believed to be a composition by Vivaldi, to the dark harmonies of Grażyna Bacewicz. The metamorphosis of music through the two-hundred-and-thirty years that separate these two works is no better embodied than by Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen for 23 strings, a work written during the final months of the Second World War and that seems to collapse simplicity and complexity onto each other, as if history would have to start folding onto itself. It is arguable whether music really did change after Strauss in a way that was never going to go back. What surely did change was the European social context and the main tenets of the Western world. The Venetian pre-capitalistic urban landscape where Alessandro Marcello and Vivaldi operated had very little to share with the consumeristic machine that would grip cities like London and Paris or the socialism imposed in Warsaw and East Berlin from the late 1940’s. The juxtaposition of these three short pieces helps us meditate on how difficult it is to tell the roots from the leaves in a tree that has weathered so much throughout its life. St Andrew's Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Andrew's Church
5 St Andrew Street
Holborn, City of London
London
EC4A 3AF
England

Thursday 20th February 2025
7:00 PM

Programme

Alessandro Marcello – Oboe Concerto in D minor, S D935
Richard Strauss – Metamorphosen, TrV 290
Grażyna Bacewicz – Concerto for String Orchestra

Performers

Laura Wallace – oboe

Fidelio Orchestra

Programme Note

As the opening concert for the 2025 concert series, experience the Fidelio Orchestra in a round for an atmospheric performance of music spanning more than two centuries. Only twenty-five people making music in an intimate setting in the dimly lit Church of St Andrew’s Holborn. The string orchestra is joined by soloist Laura Wallace.

From the meditative genre-defining melodies of Alessandro Marcello’s oboe concerto, for years believed to be a composition by Vivaldi, to the dark harmonies of Grażyna Bacewicz. The metamorphosis of music through the two-hundred-and-thirty years that separate these two works is no better embodied than by Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen for 23 strings, a work written during the final months of the Second World War and that seems to collapse simplicity and complexity onto each other, as if history would have to start folding onto itself.

It is arguable whether music really did change after Strauss in a way that was never going to go back. What surely did change was the European social context and the main tenets of the Western world. The Venetian pre-capitalistic urban landscape where Alessandro Marcello and Vivaldi operated had very little to share with the consumeristic machine that would grip cities like London and Paris or the socialism imposed in Warsaw and East Berlin from the late 1940’s.

The juxtaposition of these three short pieces helps us meditate on how difficult it is to tell the roots from the leaves in a tree that has weathered so much throughout its life.

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