Dorset County Orchestra: St Patrick's Day Concert at St Nicholas Church, Corfe Mullen on Saturday 17th March 2018

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

Dorset County Orchestra

St Patrick's Day Concert

Add to my Calendar 17-03-2018 19:30 17-03-2018 21:30 36 Dorset County Orchestra Nursery Rhymes, Ghosts, Folk Tunes from the land of Dracula and a symphony praised as Beethoven's Tenth. * Ravel's Mother Goose Suite The basis of the work is the 17th century collection of fairy tales known as ‘Mother Goose’. Ravel's score is beautiful, enchanting, simple and melodic * Saint Saens Danse Macabre, theme to TV mystery crime drama,Jonathan Creek, was written in the early 1870s. . A whole narrative unfolds in the piece, with the violin representing death himself and the story starting at midnight. * Bartok's Romanian Dances based on tunes from Transylvania, originally played on the fiddle or shepherd's flute. * Brahms Symphony No 1which took him nearly 15 years to complete. Even at its premiere, he remained sceptical about whether anyone would like it. He had nothing to fear, a famous conductor at the time described this work as ‘Beethoven’s Tenth’. No greater compliment could have possibly been paid.  St Nicholas Church, Corfe Mullen DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Nicholas Church
30 Wareham Road
Corfe Mullen
Dorset
BH21 3LE
England

Saturday 17th March 2018
7:30 PM

Programme

Maurice Ravel – Mother Goose suite
Johannes Brahms – Symphony no.1 in C minor, Op.68
Béla Bartók – Romanian Folk Dances for orchestra, Sz.68
Camille Saint-Saëns – Danse Macabre in G minor, Op.40 (1874)

Performers

Martin Henderson – Conductor

Dorset County Orchestra

Programme Note

Nursery Rhymes, Ghosts, Folk Tunes from the land of Dracula and a symphony praised as Beethoven's Tenth.

* Ravel's Mother Goose Suite The basis of the work is the 17th century collection of fairy tales known as ‘Mother Goose’. Ravel's score is beautiful, enchanting, simple and melodic

* Saint Saens Danse Macabre, theme to TV mystery crime drama,Jonathan Creek, was written in the early 1870s. . A whole narrative unfolds in the piece, with the violin representing death himself and the story starting at midnight.

* Bartok's Romanian Dances based on tunes from Transylvania, originally played on the fiddle or shepherd's flute.

* Brahms Symphony No 1which took him nearly 15 years to complete. Even at its premiere, he remained sceptical about whether anyone would like it. He had nothing to fear, a famous conductor at the time described this work as ‘Beethoven’s Tenth’. No greater compliment could have possibly been paid.

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