A bright and varied start to get our year rolling. As mentioned in the previous newsletter our music is being selected from the concert programmes of the same month of the Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras. Our first session for the month of March saw us start off with the Overture to Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream; followed by the major work for the morning: Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto (below). The “Mother Goose Suite” by Ravel and a couple of different approaches to JS Bach’s “Orchestral Suite No.3”. rounded off proceedings.
The major work to focus on for the second of our sessions was Dvorak’s Violin Concerto - with a scintillating performance by violinist Ann-Sophie Mutter. It was preceded by the overture to Mozart’s “Il Seraglio” (the opera is an hilarious story), and Gabrieli’s “Canzona par Sonar in Echo Duodecimi 10”; with the rest of the programme moving over to more contemporary works : Samuel Barber’s “Mutations from Bach", Lauridsen’s “O Magnum Mysterium”, and Max Richter’s “On the Nature of Daylight” (below), before closing off with a small portion of “The Last Words of Christ” by Haydn.
If you would like to look at/listen to the any of the recordings, the Programme Notes and YouTube links are available here:
12th March
26th March
12th March
26th March
Bill Squire
