Magical Mozart at Chobham Festival: Music for Harp and Flute at St Lawrence Church, Chobham on Saturday 2nd October 2021

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Magical Mozart at Chobham Festival

Music for Harp and Flute

Part of the Chobham Festival - 2021

Add to my Calendar 02-10-2021 20:30 02-10-2021 22:30 36 Magical Mozart at Chobham Festival Lisa Nelsen is internationally recognised for her versatility as a flute soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, educator and mentor in performance practices.  Elizabeth Bass enjoys a varied life as a professional harpist working as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral and ensemble player and recording artist across the UK and beyond. Mozart’s Concerto in C major for flute and harp, K 299 is best understood as the last of a group of concertante works that he wrote for the flute, all in a short space of time. This concerto was written in Paris, and the unusual combination of solo instruments was determined by the fact that it was a commission from the Comte de Guines, Adrien-Louis Bonnières de Souastre, a former French envoy to England, who was a keen amateur flautist. One might have expected that the commission would hardly have inspired Mozart, who professed to dislike both solo instruments (there is no other work by Mozart featuring a harp) and had a low opinion of French musical taste. Yet he duly delivered the concerto, and thereby produced a work that has remained popular throughout the two succeeding centuries St Lawrence Church, Chobham DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Lawrence Church
High Street
Chobham
Surrey
GU24 8AA
England

Saturday 2nd October 2021
8:30 PM

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Concerto in C major for Flute and Harp, K.299/297c
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Divertimento in F major 'Salzburg Symphony no.3', K.138/125c
Claude Debussy – Danse sacree et danse profane
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Andante in C major, K.315/285e

Performers

Lisa Nelsen – flute
Elizabeth Bass – Harp
Dale Chambers – Conductor

Festival Chamber Orchestra

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Programme Note

Lisa Nelsen is internationally recognised for her versatility as a flute soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, educator and mentor in performance practices.

Elizabeth Bass enjoys a varied life as a professional harpist working as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral and ensemble player and recording artist across the UK and beyond.

Mozart’s Concerto in C major for flute and harp, K 299 is best understood as the last of a group of concertante works that he wrote for the flute, all in a short space of time. This concerto was written in Paris, and the unusual combination of solo instruments was determined by the fact that it was a commission from the Comte de Guines, Adrien-Louis Bonnières de Souastre, a former French envoy to England, who was a keen amateur flautist.

One might have expected that the commission would hardly have inspired Mozart, who professed to dislike both solo instruments (there is no other work by Mozart featuring a harp) and had a low opinion of French musical taste. Yet he duly delivered the concerto, and thereby produced a work that has remained popular throughout the two succeeding centuries

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