Details
Stoller Hall
Hunts Bank
Manchester
M3 1DA
England
Programme
Charles Gounod – Petite symphonie, CG 560
Robert Schumann – Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54
~ Interval ~
Grażyna Bacewicz – Concerto for String Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony no.35 in D major 'Haffner', K.385
Performers
Martin Roscoe – piano
Nicholas Ward – Leader
Northern Chamber Orchestra
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
We bring a programme full of variety to our home in Manchester, The Stoller Hall, for our first concert there in 2019. Opening the concert, the sparkling Petite symphonie of Gounod for nine wind players will delight everyone, not least the string players who get a rare piece off! Martin Roscoe, our Vice-President, plays Schumann’s Piano Concerto, a mighty work which the composer himself described as ‘a compromise between a symphony, a concerto and a huge sonata’. The second half begins with a work from a relatively little known Polish composer, Grazyna Bacewicz, the masterpiece of neo-classicism, her Concerto for Strings. To close the concert we are delighted to be playing a work which at around 19 minutes, may be one of Mozart’s shortest symphonies, but the ‘Haffner’ is so brim-full of tunes, wit and energy that no one could possibly feel shortchanged.
