Details
St Peter and St Paul Church
Church Street
Deddington
Oxfordshire
OX15 0SA
England
Programme
Anton Bruckner – Overture in G minor, WAB 98
William Walton – Viola Concerto
~ Interval ~
Max Bruch – Symphony no.3, Op.51
Performers
Luba Tunnicliffe – viola
Paul Willett – Conductor
Banbury Symphony Orchestra
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Programme Note
This autumn, the Banbury Symphony Orchestra will perform three romantic orchestral compositions from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Bruckner, Walton and Bruch are the composers for our concert in Deddington Church on 24th November.
Anton Bruckner’s great symphonies are often described as ‘architectural’, arising from the fact that he wrote soaring cathedrals of sound extending over long time spans. We will begin our concert with his early work, the Overture in G Minor, written while Bruckner was continuing to develop his mature later style.
William Walton wrote his Viola Concerto while still only in his twenties. It was an immediate and lasting success in the concert hall, despite the fact that the original dedicatee at first turned it down! The first performance was given by another great composer of the 20th century, Paul Hindemith. The concerto has three movements, unusually starting with a relatively sedate opening movement, before tearing into a faster scherzo movement and finishing with a more conventional allegro finale.
The Symphony No 3 by Max Bruch dates from the 1880s. Bruch was a prolific composer in the German romantic tradition, writing over 200 pieces during his long life. He is best known today for his solo string concertos, such as the Violin Concerto No 1, a concert-hall favourite. The symphony that we play today is in the mould of Brahms, a four-movement work that reflects Bruch’s love for his native Rhineland.