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The Fire Station
High Street West
Sunderland
Tyne & Wear
SR1 3HA
England
Programme
Camille Saint-Saens – Danse Macabre in G minor, Op.40 (1874)
Karim Al-Zand – Ronde Fantastique
Marin Marais – Alcyone
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier – Concerto a 5
Germaine Tailleferre – Reverie
Francis Poulenc – Un joueur de flûte berce les ruines (1942)
~ Interval ~
Charles Gounod – Ave Maria
Salim Dada – Two Algerian Miniatures
Francis Poulenc – Sinfonietta, FP 141
Performers
Kyra Humphreys – violin / director
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Programme Note
Continuing their residency at The Fire Station, Royal Northern Sinfonia present an 'Orchestra Takeover' where the musicians of RNS themselves have chosen all the music for a diverse programme, this time with a distinctly French flavour. There are many opportunities for individual musicians to step into the limelight, whether shining with the baroque brilliance of Boismortier and Marais, or getting into the groove of more recent compositions by Karim Al-Zand and Salim Dada - both born in former French colonies in North Africa. Mixed in among the orchestral pieces are some chamber-scale gems, rubbing shoulders with Romantic favourites by Saint-Saens and Gounod, and it all comes to a sparkling close with the musical fireworks of Poulenc's effervescent and quintissentially French, Sinfonietta.
