Baroque Connections - St George's Chamber Orchestra at St George's Church, London on Saturday 9th March 2019

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Baroque Connections - St George's Chamber Orchestra

Add to my Calendar 09-03-2019 19:45 09-03-2019 21:45 36 Baroque Connections - St George's Chamber Orchestra St George's Chamber Orchestra presents a programme of varied baroque music. Owen Dennis, one of the country's leading oboists, plays Albinoni's beautiful concerto, and Dominic Moore, the orchestra's musical director, plays the effervescent violin concerto in E by Bach. We also play an orchestral suite from Campra's brilliant collection of love stories, L'Europe Galante. St George’s Chamber Orchestra was founded in 2004 as the professional orchestra for the South East in order to give local music lovers the opportunity to hear orchestral concerts of the highest standard on their own doorstep, and indeed for the musicians to enjoy making music together on their own doorstep! The orchestra is drawn from an extraordinarily talented, experienced and versatile pool of musicians, a large number of whom are past winners of prestigious awards and musical competitions in the UK and elsewhere. Many either are or have been members of the leading London orchestras and a significant number are principals in those orchestras. Many others are members of Britain’s best known chamber ensembles. We are proud to be resident at St George’s Church, Beckenham which has a long, strong and respected musical heritage, and boasts one of the finest church choirs in the UK. With its spaciousness, good acoustics and warm friendly atmosphere the church is an ideal venue for a chamber orchestra. A few comments from our audience: 'St George's Chamber Orchestra is pure gold.'‘St George's Chamber Orchestra has got to be one of the best things about being a Beckenham local. At the end of each concert I’m already looking forward to the next one.’'Your programmes are always imaginitive and the playing first class.''I have really enjoyed the concerts over these last years. So good and so convenient for me. Long may you continue!''I greatly value the opportunity and experience you provide of "going round the corner" and hearing professionals at work. Thank you so very much.''It was a wonderful concert, very special. No need for any of us to travel up to the Wigmore Hall etc for a performance of the quality we have here in Beckenham. And afterwards we were home again in 10 minutes - fantastic!!''An absolutely first class concert - I wonder how many locals actually realise how lucky they are to have performances of such high quality on their doorstep. It was a privilege to be there.' St George's Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St George's Church
High Street
Beckenham
London
BR3 1AX
England

Saturday 9th March 2019
7:45 PM

Programme

Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto for Strings in G minor, RV 157
André Campra – L'Europe galante
Tomaso Albinoni – Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op.9 no.2
~ Interval ~
George Frideric Handel – Concerto Grosso in A major, Op.6 no.11 (HWV 329)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Violin Concerto in E Major, BWV 1042
Johann Sebastian Bach – Matthew Passion: 'Erbarme Dich, mein Gott' (tr. oboe d'amore)

Performers

Owen Dennis – oboe
Dominic Moore – violin / director

St George's Chamber Orchestra

Programme Note

St George's Chamber Orchestra presents a programme of varied baroque music. Owen Dennis, one of the country's leading oboists, plays Albinoni's beautiful concerto, and Dominic Moore, the orchestra's musical director, plays the effervescent violin concerto in E by Bach. We also play an orchestral suite from Campra's brilliant collection of love stories, L'Europe Galante.

St George’s Chamber Orchestra was founded in 2004 as the professional orchestra for the South East in order to give local music lovers the opportunity to hear orchestral concerts of the highest standard on their own doorstep, and indeed for the musicians to enjoy making music together on their own doorstep!

The orchestra is drawn from an extraordinarily talented, experienced and versatile pool of musicians, a large number of whom are past winners of prestigious awards and musical competitions in the UK and elsewhere. Many either are or have been members of the leading London orchestras and a significant number are principals in those orchestras. Many others are members of Britain’s best known chamber ensembles.

We are proud to be resident at St George’s Church, Beckenham which has a long, strong and respected musical heritage, and boasts one of the finest church choirs in the UK. With its spaciousness, good acoustics and warm friendly atmosphere the church is an ideal venue for a chamber orchestra.

A few comments from our audience:

'St George's Chamber Orchestra is pure gold.'
‘St George's Chamber Orchestra has got to be one of the best things about being a Beckenham local. At the end of each concert I’m already looking forward to the next one.’
'Your programmes are always imaginitive and the playing first class.'
'I have really enjoyed the concerts over these last years. So good and so convenient for me. Long may you continue!'
'I greatly value the opportunity and experience you provide of "going round the corner" and hearing professionals at work. Thank you so very much.'
'It was a wonderful concert, very special. No need for any of us to travel up to the Wigmore Hall etc for a performance of the quality we have here in Beckenham. And afterwards we were home again in 10 minutes - fantastic!!'
'An absolutely first class concert - I wonder how many locals actually realise how lucky they are to have performances of such high quality on their doorstep. It was a privilege to be there.'

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