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Details

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


Programme

Maurice RavelMother Goose suite
Johannes BrahmsSymphony no.1 in C minor, Op.68
Béla BartókRomanian Folk Dances for orchestra, Sz.68
Camille Saint-SaensDanse 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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