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Details
St Dunstan's Church
High Street
Mayfield
East Sussex
TN20 6AB
England
Tickets
Prices: £30, £15 (age 25 and under - £5)
Book Tickets
Programme
Richard Wagner – Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major, K.364/320d
~ Interval ~
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony no.3 in E flat major 'Eroica', Op.55
Performers
Jack Gonzalez-Harding – Conductor
Programme Note
A Sir Simon Rattle protege, Jack Gonzalez-Harding returns to Mayfield to conduct the Barbican Sinfonia (consisting of musicians from orchestras including the Royal Opera House and London Philharmonic) in a concert that features works by three compositional giants of the Classical and Romantic eras.
Wagner composed his Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present to his wife following the birth of their second son, Siegfried, in 1869 and some of the music from the Idyll was eventually incorporated into his later opera Siegfried. The Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major was composed almost a century earlier, in 1779, when Mozart was on a tour of Europe and it is generally considered to be his most successful foray into the concertante genre (a hybrid of symphony and concerto). Beethoven's third symphony received its first performance in 1805, although the majority of the piece had been composed two years previously. Famously, Beethoven had originally intended to dedicate the symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte (who he felt was implementing the ideals of the French Revolution) but then angrily excised the Frenchman's name from the manuscript in 1804 after learning that Napoleon had proclaimed himself Emperor.
