Hitchin Symphony Orchestra: Autumn Concert at St Mary's Church, Hitchin on Saturday 18th November 2023

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Hitchin Symphony Orchestra

Autumn Concert

Add to my Calendar 18-11-2023 19:30 18-11-2023 21:30 36 Hitchin Symphony Orchestra Our concert on 18 November 2023 will open with César Cui’s Petite Suite No. 3, which is an exciting smorgasbord of fluctuating moods and forms. The work sits neatly within the unmistakeable aesthetic of his contemporaries, the so-called ‘Mighty Handful’ of 19th century composers who set about curating a distinctively Russian style. This will be followed by Schubert’s Symphony No. 6, which, although one of his later symphonies, was composed when Schubert was in his early twenties so still abounds with levity and youth. The second half will start with Charles Ives’ landmark The Unanswered Question, which stacks harshly contrasting musical elements, operating at different speeds, on top of one another. The effect is both jarring and haunting as a solo trumpet ponders the ‘perennial question of existence’, striving in vain for a definitive answer. For the concert’s finale we are absolutely thrilled to be performing Schumann’s Piano Concerto with Cordelia Williams. One of the composer’s most poignant and subtly articulated works, the concerto was so praised by its dedicatee and premiere soloist, Clara Schumann: ‘... how rich in invention, how interesting from the beginning to the end, how fresh and what a beautiful coherent whole!’. St Mary's Church, Hitchin DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Mary's Church
Church House
Churchyard
Hitchin
Hertfordshire
SG5 1HP
England

Saturday 18th November 2023
7:30 PM

Programme

César Cui – Suite no.3, Op.43
Franz Schubert – Symphony no.6 in C major, D.589
~ Interval ~
Charles Ives – The Unanswered Question
Robert Schumann – Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54

Performers

Rowan Baker – Conductor
Janet Hicks – Leader
Cordelia Williams – piano

Hitchin Symphony Orchestra

Programme Note

Our concert on 18 November 2023 will open with César Cui’s Petite Suite No. 3, which is an exciting smorgasbord of fluctuating moods and forms. The work sits neatly within the unmistakeable aesthetic of his contemporaries, the so-called ‘Mighty Handful’ of 19th century composers who set about curating a distinctively Russian style. This will be followed by Schubert’s Symphony No. 6, which, although one of his later symphonies, was composed when Schubert was in his early twenties so still abounds with levity and youth. The second half will start with Charles Ives’ landmark The Unanswered Question, which stacks harshly contrasting musical elements, operating at different speeds, on top of one another. The effect is both jarring and haunting as a solo trumpet ponders the ‘perennial question of existence’, striving in vain for a definitive answer. For the concert’s finale we are absolutely thrilled to be performing Schumann’s Piano Concerto with Cordelia Williams. One of the composer’s most poignant and subtly articulated works, the concerto was so praised by its dedicatee and premiere soloist, Clara Schumann: ‘... how rich in invention, how interesting from the beginning to the end, how fresh and what a beautiful coherent whole!’.

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