Details
Stoller Hall
Hunts Bank
Manchester
M3 1DA
England
Programme
Malcolm Arnold – Sinfonietta no.1, Op.48
Joseph Haydn – Symphony no.102 in B flat major, Hob.I:102
~ Interval ~
Josef Suk – Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale 'St. Wenceslas', Op.35a
Carl Maria von Weber – Clarinet Concerto no.2 in E flat major, Op.74
Performers
Julian Bliss – clarinet
Nicholas Ward – Artistic Director
Northern Chamber Orchestra
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Programme Note
The Northern Chamber Orchestra’s second concert of the season features remarkable young clarinetist Julian Bliss, acclaimed by critics worldwide, who appears here in a virtuosic mini-masterpiece, Weber’s second Clarinet Concerto. The programme opens with a work by the British composer Malcolm Arnold, his Sinfonietta No 1, an ebullient piece with an abundance of attractive thematic material with a notably jubilant conclusion.
After the interval is Suk’s Meditation, a politically charged work designed to ignite Czech Nationalist sentiments, written at the outbreak of WWI. The concert closes with a work also written at a time of war and revolutionary fervour. The symphony was premiered in London in 1795 during which a chandelier crashed to the floor narrowly missing audience members.
