Mozart, Matthews and Mahler at Stratford Playhouse, Stratford-upon-Avon on Tuesday 28th May 2019

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Mozart, Matthews and Mahler

Add to my Calendar 28-05-2019 19:30 28-05-2019 21:30 36 Mozart, Matthews and Mahler As part of a year-long project in conjunction with the Worcester-based English Symphony Orchestra, celebrating ‘David Matthews in The Heart of England’, April Fredrick – “one of the most beautiful, unalloyed, expressive voices I have ever heard” – will premiere the composer’s latest work with Orchestra of the Swan: a song-cycle based on Alphonse de Lamartine’s partly-autobiographical poem ‘The Lake’. Continuing the themes of loss and lamentation, this is followed by Kenneth Woods’ own arrangement of the second movement of Schubert’s String Quartet no14 – composed when he himself was dying – which features five variations on his great song Der Tod und das Mädchen. The concert ends with a symphony that dwells on a child’s vision of Heaven, with April returning to sing the final movement’s rapturous Das himmlische Leben. Stratford Playhouse, Stratford-upon-Avon DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Stratford Playhouse
14 Rother Street
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
CV37 6LU
England

Tuesday 28th May 2019
7:30 PM

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Divertimento in B-flat major, K.137/125b
Gustav Mahler – Symphony no.4 in G major
Franz Schubert – String Quartet no.14 in D minor 'Death and the Maiden': I. Allegro (arr. for string orchestra by P Kopatchinskaja)
David Matthews – Le Lac (2017)

Performers

Kenneth Woods – Conductor
April Fredrick – soprano

Orchestra of the Swan

Programme Note

As part of a year-long project in conjunction with the Worcester-based English Symphony Orchestra, celebrating ‘David Matthews in The Heart of England’, April Fredrick – “one of the most beautiful, unalloyed, expressive voices I have ever heard” – will premiere the composer’s latest work with Orchestra of the Swan: a song-cycle based on Alphonse de Lamartine’s partly-autobiographical poem ‘The Lake’. Continuing the themes of loss and lamentation, this is followed by Kenneth Woods’ own arrangement of the second movement of Schubert’s String Quartet no14 – composed when he himself was dying – which features five variations on his great song Der Tod und das Mädchen. The concert ends with a symphony that dwells on a child’s vision of Heaven, with April returning to sing the final movement’s rapturous Das himmlische Leben.

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