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The Menuhin Hall
The Yehudi Menuhin School
Stoke Road
Stoke D'Abernon
Cobham
Surrey
KT11 3QQ
England
Programme
Gabriel Fauré – Masques et Bergamasques, suite, Op.112
Francis Poulenc – Sinfonietta, FP 141
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Oboe Concerto in C major, K.314
Performers
Layla Baratto – oboe
Philip Ellis – Conductor
Antonina Suhanova – Leader
Surrey Mozart Players
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Programme Note
Surrey Mozart Players presents three beguiling masterpieces by composers not trying too hard to impress. Fauré’s response to a royal commission for the Monte Carlo Theatre was to revamp some early songs and a discarded symphonic movement. These brilliant Masques et Bergamasques will be performed tonight. Mozart gave his very best to produce a splendid Oboe Concerto for Archbishop Colloredo, which he later recycled as a flute concerto. Oboist Layla Baratto will delight us with the original version. Finally, when reviewers complained that Poulenc’s radiant Sinfonietta lacked gravitas, he responded that they should not try to analyse his music – just enjoy it. We intend to.
