Bristol Ensemble Baroque The Vauxhall Players Introduced by Dr Matthew Spring This programme intermixes music composed by William Herschel during his years in Bath (1766-82) and in the six years he spent in the North of England, with music by those who worked with him and whose music he knew: Charles Avison, Thomas Linley, Venanzio […]
Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture Bruch Violin Concerto Beethoven Symphony No.1 Emil Huckle-Kleve violin Mendelssohn’s lyrical and dramatic Hebrides Overture (also known as Fingal’s Cave) opens this concert of music by German composers. Bruch’s iconic Violin Concerto is one of the most popular in the genre, full of sustained emotion, stunningly beautiful melodies, and romantic themes. The concert’s finale is Beethoven’s sparkling Symphony No. […]
Ralph Vaughan Williams Suite for Viola – Group 1 The Lark Ascending On Wenlock Edge Marking the 150th birthday of one of England’s best-loved and most distinctive composers, this programme features one of the nation’s most treasured works, The Lark Ascending, in an arrangement for solo violin, piano and string quartet. The ravishing and wistful Suite for […]
Ralph Vaughan Williams Suite for Viola – Group 1 The Lark Ascending On Wenlock Edge Marking the 150th birthday of one of England’s best-loved and most distinctive composers, this programme features the nation’s most treasured work, The Lark Ascending, in an arrangement for solo violin, piano and string quartet. The ravishing and wistful Suite for […]
Milhaud La Création du Monde Max Richter Nature of Daylight Haydn Symphony no 6 Le Matin Wagner Siegfried Idyll Copland Appalachian Spring This performance opens with Milhaud’s La Création du Monde, a jazz-inspired ballet and ends with a celebration of nature with Copland’s Appalachian Spring. In between, the ensemble explores more complex human emotions with Richter’s On the Nature of Daylight and the wonderful Siegfried […]
Bristol Choral Society Bristol Ensemble Hilary Campbell – conductor Steven Kings – piano Marija Struckova – piano Vanessa Bowers – soprano Jamie W Hall – baritone Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms Fauré Requiem Not for Fauré the Requiem ‘shock and awe’ of a Mozart, Berlioz or Verdi. Refined over a decade, his Mass for the Dead […]