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'The stories and links behind our May selections'

25/5/2020

The MSO’s scheduled programme for May gave us an array of options. We couldn’t choose it all, so some will have to wait for another time – perhaps a month when the orchestra was planning to not be so busy. To find out what our music selections were, simply click on the links below where you will be able to read the stories behind them and listen to the music you wish to enjoy.

Class Notes:

8th May - Johannes Brahms/Gustav Holst/Beethoven 2020
22nd May - Faure/Purcell/Tchaikovsky/Vaughan Williams/Beethoven 2020

Beethoven 2020

8th May - Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - Quintet for piano and wind instruments, in E flat major opus 16 Klara Würtz, piano / Henk de Graaf, clarinet / Hans Meyer, oboe / Peter Gaasterland, bassoon / Martin van de Merwe, horn

22rd May - Beethoven's 'Emperor' Concerto - A performance on January 14 2017 by soloist Stephen Hough accompanied by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Alan Gilbert.

Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto and Brahms’s Third from New York Philharmonic on Vimeo.

Bill Squire
25th May, 2020

'Keeping the Music Going'

6/5/2020

“Keep the Music Going” has been the catch-cry of the MSO in this time of social distancing Under that banner the MSO has been posting - on YouTube - recordings of recent performances. Given that that April was originally planned as a more or less “off” month concert-wise for the orchestra, this initiative proved serendipitous when it came to selecting music for our one and only presentation this month (one and only because of the Easter holiday break early in the month).

So as our contribution (for this month anyway) to “Keep the Music Going” in our part of the world, the music selected included Beethoven’s “Septet", Vaughan William’s “The Lark Ascending” and Martinu’s “Madrigals” – all by the MSO or musicians from the orchestra. There was a small snippet from Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” performed by the Mariinsky Ballet Company (the MSO had posted a recording of a Stravinsky double bill concert featuring the complete “Rite of Spring” and the melodrama “Persephone”, but a stage presentation is much more appealing) and the programme was rounded off by Beethoven’s “Seven Variation on a Mozart Duet” (from the Magic Flute).

You can read about the session and listen to the music by opening up the explanatory notes below - these include the relevant video links.

24th April: Beethoven 2020; Ralph Vaughan Mitchell; Igor Stravinsky; Bohuslva Martinu

Bill Squire

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