Winchmore String Orchestra Concert in aid of "Water Aid" at Winchmore Hill Methodist Church, London on Saturday 18th November 2017

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Winchmore String Orchestra Concert in aid of "Water Aid"

Add to my Calendar 18-11-2017 19:30 18-11-2017 21:30 36 Winchmore String Orchestra Concert in aid of "Water Aid" FESTIVE NIGHTS With the festive season approaching and the nights getting longer we have chosen two timely themes for our end-of-year concert: Christmas; and music with nocturnal associations. But the result is a remarkably varied programme, ranging from the Baroque period to 20th-century America, and taking in Germany, Spain, Italy, Bohemia and France on the way. No music shouts “Christmas” more loudly than HANDEL’s Messiah, even if its first performance, in Dublin in 1742, took place in the month of April. Our concert will open with its overture, rich in images of eager anticipation and pastoral piety. This will link directly to another seasonal piece, written nearly two centuries later – Holy Boy by the British composer John IRELAND. The Nativity theme will be further developed with the much-loved Christmas Concerto by CORELLI, who was born a generation before Handel and who became known as the “father of the concerto grosso”, the musical form in which this work was written. A different take on Christmas comes with the Meditation on the “Wenceslas” chorale by the Czech composer and son-in-law of Dvořák, Josef SUK, based on an ancient hymn to his country’s patron saint, whom we know as “Good King Wenceslas”. And to round off this theme we go to the USA for a Suite of Carols by the 20th- century composer Leroy ANDERSON, described by the conductor John Williams as “one of the great American masters of light orchestral music”. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The night theme involves two nocturnes – one by the Russian Alexander BORODIN (later recycled in the 1950s musical Kismet), the other for piano by Frédéric CHOPIN – probably this composer’s most famous nocturne and his only work to have been permanently on the Classic FM Hall of Fame list since this started. The latter will be played by our soloist for the evening, Oliver Till, who will also play the first movement of BEETHOVEN’s Moonlight Sonata. Still on the nocturnal theme but quite different in character is an atmospheric piece by the Italian composer BOCCHERINI, who lived for many years in Spain, called Night music from the streets of Madrid. One other work in the programme, albeit with neither Christmas nor nocturnal baggage, is a Concerto for Keyboard by C P E BACH (son of Johann Sebastian), in which Oliver will be the soloist.  Winchmore Hill Methodist Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

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

Saturday 18th November 2017
7:30 PM

Programme

George Frideric Handel – Messiah: Overture
John Ireland – Holy Boy
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Keyboard Concerto in A minor, H 403
Luigi Boccherini – La Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid
~ Interval ~
Leroy Anderson – Suite of Carols for String Orchestra
Aleksandr Borodin – Nocturne for String Orchestra (arr. Malcolm Sargent)
Frédéric Chopin – Nocturne in E flat major, Op.9 no.2
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata no.14 'Moonlight', Op.27 no.2
Josef Suk – Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale 'St. Wenceslas', Op.35a
Arcangelo Corelli – Concerto Grosso in G minor 'Christmas concerto', Op.6 no.8

Performers

Nigel Blomiley – Conductor
Oliver Till – piano

Winchmore String Orchestra

Programme Note

FESTIVE NIGHTS

With the festive season approaching and the nights getting longer we have chosen two timely themes for our end-of-year concert: Christmas; and music with nocturnal associations. But the result is a remarkably varied programme, ranging from the Baroque period to 20th-century America, and taking in Germany, Spain, Italy, Bohemia and France on the way.

No music shouts “Christmas” more loudly than HANDEL’s Messiah, even if its first performance, in Dublin in 1742, took place in the month of April. Our concert will open with its overture, rich in images of eager anticipation and pastoral piety. This will link directly to another seasonal piece, written nearly two centuries later – Holy Boy by the British composer John IRELAND.

The Nativity theme will be further developed with the much-loved Christmas Concerto by CORELLI, who was born a generation before Handel and who became known as the “father of the concerto grosso”, the musical form in which this work was written. A different take on Christmas comes with the Meditation on the “Wenceslas” chorale by the Czech composer and son-in-law of Dvořák, Josef SUK, based on an ancient hymn to his country’s patron saint, whom we know as “Good King Wenceslas”. And to round off this theme we go to the USA for a Suite of Carols by the 20th- century composer Leroy ANDERSON, described by the conductor John Williams as “one of the great American masters of light orchestral music”. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The night theme involves two nocturnes – one by the Russian Alexander BORODIN (later recycled in the 1950s musical Kismet), the other for piano by Frédéric CHOPIN – probably this composer’s most famous nocturne and his only work to have been permanently on the Classic FM Hall of Fame list since this started. The latter will be played by our soloist for the evening, Oliver Till, who will also play the first movement of BEETHOVEN’s Moonlight Sonata. Still on the nocturnal theme but quite different in character is an atmospheric piece by the Italian composer BOCCHERINI, who lived for many years in Spain, called Night music from the streets of Madrid.

One other work in the programme, albeit with neither Christmas nor nocturnal baggage, is a Concerto for Keyboard by C P E BACH (son of Johann Sebastian), in which Oliver will be the soloist.

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