Concert in aid of the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust at Winchmore Hill Methodist Church, London on Saturday 1st July 2017

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Concert in aid of the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust

Add to my Calendar 01-07-2017 19:30 01-07-2017 21:30 36 Concert in aid of the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust Our summer concert this year will be the last under the baton of Philip Gibson as our regular conductor. After more than six years with us Phil is retiring from the post, which he leaves with our warmest good wishes and thanks for his hard work and commitment.  The leader of the WSO, Chris Gundry, who is also chairman of the orchestra committee, says: “Besides always being patient, conscientious and good-humoured, Phil has somehow persuaded us we can play better than we thought we could.  That is a great gift, and we will very much miss him.” As with most of our concerts designed with Phil’s advice, the programme for the coming one is a mixture of familiar and less familiar works.  It opens with the Overture in C minor  by SCHUBERT, one of his earliest surviving works.  This will be followed by TCHAIKOVSKY’s Elegy, which despite its sombre title was written for an event celebrating a renowned actor’s 50 years on the stage. Max BRUCH is famous for his hugely-popular first violin concerto, but our programme will feature a lesser-known concerto by him – written for clarinet and viola but also suitable for violin and viola.  The soloists are old friends of the WSO – Lisa Ueda and Ian Byrne Britto. The other works are the Toy Symphony -- long thought to be by Haydn but now nobody is sure who wrote it – and the  Serenade No 1 in D by Robert FUCHS, a Romantic “feelgood” piece by an Austrian composer of the 19th and 20th centuries who was prominent in his day but is now neglected. Winchmore Hill Methodist Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Winchmore Hill Methodist Church
Green Lanes
Enfield
London
N13 4EP
England

Saturday 1st July 2017
7:30 PM

Programme

Franz Schubert – Overture in C Minor, D.8
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Elegy for String Orchestra
Max Bruch – Concerto for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E minor, Op.88 (tr. for violin)
~ Interval ~
Robert Fuchs – Serenade for String Orchestra no.1, Op.9
Joseph Haydn – Kinder-Symphonie in C major

Performers

Lisa Ueda – Violin
Ian Byrne Brito – viola
Philip Gibson – Conductor

Winchmore String Orchestra

Programme Note

Our summer concert this year will be the last under the baton of Philip Gibson as our regular conductor. After more than six years with us Phil is retiring from the post, which he leaves with our warmest good wishes and thanks for his hard work and commitment.

The leader of the WSO, Chris Gundry, who is also chairman of the orchestra committee, says: “Besides always being patient, conscientious and good-humoured, Phil has somehow persuaded us we can play better than we thought we could. That is a great gift, and we will very much miss him.”

As with most of our concerts designed with Phil’s advice, the programme for the coming one is a mixture of familiar and less familiar works. It opens with the Overture in C minor by SCHUBERT, one of his earliest surviving works. This will be followed by TCHAIKOVSKY’s Elegy, which despite its sombre title was written for an event celebrating a renowned actor’s 50 years on the stage.

Max BRUCH is famous for his hugely-popular first violin concerto, but our programme will feature a lesser-known concerto by him – written for clarinet and viola but also suitable for violin and viola. The soloists are old friends of the WSO – Lisa Ueda and Ian Byrne Britto. The other works are the Toy Symphony -- long thought to be by Haydn but now nobody is sure who wrote it – and the Serenade No 1 in D by Robert FUCHS, a Romantic “feelgood” piece by an Austrian composer of the 19th and 20th centuries who was prominent in his day but is now neglected.

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