Details
Stoller Hall
Hunts Bank
Manchester
M3 1DA
England
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Magic Flute: Overture
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony no.5 in C minor, Op.67
Edward Elgar – Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85
Performers
Raphael Wallfisch – Cello
Northern Chamber Orchestra
Programme Note
The Northern Chamber Orchestra’s 50th anniversary season finishes with a suitably celebratory concert at Manchester’s Stoller Hall. It sees NCO President and internationally renowned cellist, Raphael Wallfisch, playing the piece made famous by the great Jacqueline Du Pré, Elgar’s Cello Concerto.
Either side of this contemplative and elegiac masterpiece, are two of the most recognisable pieces in the repertoire; the overture to the Magic Flute, whose energy will bring any audience instantly to life, and Beethoven’s great C minor Symphony, whose opening hammer blows of fate, the opening four notes which are as portentous as they are famous, lead us through what many regard to be the very apogee of western classical music. At the triumphant end of the symphony, the orchestra will be at very much full-strength with trumpets and trombones ensuring that the anniversary season ends in suitably triumphant style.