Nicholas Daniel plays Strauss at The Courtyard, Hereford on Friday 17th May 2019

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Nicholas Daniel plays Strauss

Add to my Calendar 17-05-2019 19:30 17-05-2019 21:30 36 Nicholas Daniel plays Strauss We welcome the City of Birmingham’s associate conductor, Michael Seal – “one of the CBSO’s best-kept secrets” – to direct a concert that illustrates the differing ways two twentieth-century composers approached and portrayed death. As depressing as this may sound, it makes for some of the most glorious music ever written – Ravel’s beautiful “evocation of a pavane that a little princess [infanta] might, in former times, have danced at the Spanish court” being a perfect example. Richard Strauss’ heart-rending Metamorphosen for twenty-three strings – an elegy for the destruction of culture, written at the end of both the Second World War and the composer’s life (as was the Oboe Concerto) – though, will be hard to surpass. The Courtyard, Hereford DD/MM/YYYY

Details

The Courtyard
Edgar Street
Hereford
Herefordshire
HR4 9JR
England

Friday 17th May 2019
7:30 PM

Programme

Maurice Ravel – Pavane pour une infante défunte
Maurice Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin
Richard Strauss – Metamorphosen, TrV 290
Richard Strauss – Oboe Concerto, TrV 292

Performers

Michael Seal – Conductor
Nicholas Daniel – oboe

Orchestra of the Swan

Programme Note

We welcome the City of Birmingham’s associate conductor, Michael Seal – “one of the CBSO’s best-kept secrets” – to direct a concert that illustrates the differing ways two twentieth-century composers approached and portrayed death. As depressing as this may sound, it makes for some of the most glorious music ever written – Ravel’s beautiful “evocation of a pavane that a little princess [infanta] might, in former times, have danced at the Spanish court” being a perfect example. Richard Strauss’ heart-rending Metamorphosen for twenty-three strings – an elegy for the destruction of culture, written at the end of both the Second World War and the composer’s life (as was the Oboe Concerto) – though, will be hard to surpass.

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