Sunday Afternoon Concert with the Glinka Trio: Featuring music by Saint-Saens, Glinka, Hurlstone & Hindemith at St Stephens Church, St Albans on Sunday 20th August 2023

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Sunday Afternoon Concert with the Glinka Trio

Featuring music by Saint-Saens, Glinka, Hurlstone & Hindemith

Add to my Calendar 20-08-2023 14:00 20-08-2023 16:00 36 Sunday Afternoon Concert with the Glinka Trio Saint-Saens Bassoon Sonata Op.168 is a piece for solo bassoon and piano composed between May and June 1921 by Camille Saint-Saëns. It was published the same year it was composed, in Paris by Durand. In the last year of his life, at the age of 85, Camille Saint-Saëns was still active as a composer and conductor, traveling between Algiers and Paris. Besides a final piano album leaf, his last completed works were three sonatas, one each for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon. He sensed that he did not have much time left; he wrote to a friend, "I am using my last energies to add to the repertoire for these otherwise neglected instruments." He intended to write sonatas for another three wind instruments, but was never able to.  The Bassoon Sonata, Op. 168, was dedicated to Saint-Saëns' friend, Clément-Léon Letellier, a bassoon professor at the Paris Conservatoire. The opening Allegro moderato is liltingly charming as it drifts between major and minor, building to a not too dramatic climax in its development section. The second movement, Allegro scherzando, begins in minor mode, but it, too, changes frequently between major and minor during its lighthearted jaunt. The final movement is in two parts, Molto adagio and Allegro moderato. The Adagio, the longest section of the entire sonata at over five minutes, features a florid melody over a simple, essentially chordal accompaniment. It leads to the cadenza-like, minute-long final Allegro. St Stephens Church, St Albans DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Stephens Church
Watling Street
St Albans
Hertfordshire
AL1 2PT
England

Sunday 20th August 2023
2:00 PM

Programme

Mikhail Glinka – Trio pathétique
Camille Saint-Saëns – Sonata for bassoon & piano, Op.168

Performers

Debbie Barnes – bassoon
Anna Le Hair – piano
Alison Eales – clarinet

Glinka Trio

Programme Note

Saint-Saens Bassoon Sonata Op.168 is a piece for solo bassoon and piano composed between May and June 1921 by Camille Saint-Saëns. It was published the same year it was composed, in Paris by Durand.

In the last year of his life, at the age of 85, Camille Saint-Saëns was still active as a composer and conductor, traveling between Algiers and Paris. Besides a final piano album leaf, his last completed works were three sonatas, one each for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon. He sensed that he did not have much time left; he wrote to a friend, "I am using my last energies to add to the repertoire for these otherwise neglected instruments." He intended to write sonatas for another three wind instruments, but was never able to.

The Bassoon Sonata, Op. 168, was dedicated to Saint-Saëns' friend, Clément-Léon Letellier, a bassoon professor at the Paris Conservatoire. The opening Allegro moderato is liltingly charming as it drifts between major and minor, building to a not too dramatic climax in its development section. The second movement, Allegro scherzando, begins in minor mode, but it, too, changes frequently between major and minor during its lighthearted jaunt. The final movement is in two parts, Molto adagio and Allegro moderato. The Adagio, the longest section of the entire sonata at over five minutes, features a florid melody over a simple, essentially chordal accompaniment. It leads to the cadenza-like, minute-long final Allegro.

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