Next concert details and rehearsals

The next concert is Thursday 21st March 2019 at 8.00 pm in the Church.

Rehearsals start Thursday 10th Jan with a half term break (21st Feb) and a final rehearsal on Thursday 21st March at 7.00 pm before the concert.

This looks like another nice programme with some music that may be new to some of us:

 Giovanni Paisiello:

Overture - Barber of Seville (1782)

Carl Maria von Weber:

Bassoon Concerto in F major Op.75 (1811 Revised 1822)

Felix Mendelssohn:

Symphony No. 1 in C minor (1824) 

Paisiello was primarily an opera composer. His instrumental works are therefore imbued with a similar vocally conceived melodic line, granted they may be lacking in the sophisticated counterpoint and motivic work of Haydn and Mozart's music. This characterization, however, does not do justice to the extreme drama and topical contrast in all his works. Essentially he had mastered all the techniques which made for good opera, and this made his works widely popular and admired throughout Europe.

Carl Maria von Weber's Concerto for Bassoon in F Major, Op. 75 (J. 127) was composed in 1811 for Munich court musician Georg Friedrich Brandt, and then revised in 1822. Primarily an opera conductor and composer, Weber had only arrived a few months earlier in Munich, where he was extremely well received. The concerto is one of two pieces written for bassoon by Weber, the other being Andante e Rondo Ungarese, Op. 35 (J. 158)

The Symphony No. 1 in C minor for full orchestra was written in 1824, when Mendelssohn was aged 15. This work is experimental, showing the influences of Beethoven and Carl Maria von Weber. Mendelssohn conducted the symphony on his first visit to London in 1829, with the orchestra of the Philharmonic Society. For the third movement he substituted an orchestration of the Scherzo from his Octet. In this form the piece was a success, and laid the foundations of his British reputation.