£42.50 (Non JG member)
Overview
Natalie Murray-Beale Conductor. Thomas Gould Violin. Haydn Symphony No.49 in F Minor (Passione), Vaughan Williams Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus, Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending, Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik Serenade K525, Haydn Symphony No.45 in F Sharp Minor (Farewell). Our guest conductor is Natalie Murray-Beale. Currently Creative Director of Independent Opera at Sadler’s Wells, Natalie was a BBC Performing Arts Fellow in 2015 and was selected by Dallas Opera for their inaugural Institute for Women Conductors. British violinist Thomas Gould joins us for The Lark Ascending, a regular Classic FM top ten that depicts the soaring song of a skylark over fields of English corn. Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus for strings and harp is based on folk tunes collected by Vaughan Williams and contains sumptuous string writing in its sweeping melodies. Another Classic FM favourite is Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik, a string serenade written whilst Mozart was composing his opera Don Giovanni. It later gained its title of A little night music. The programme starts and ends with two Haydn symphonies both from his ‘Sturm and Drang’ period, a movement that took place in German art celebrating ‘storm and stress’. Symphony No.49 gained its title Passione as a direct result of the movement. Haydn’s Farewell Symphony is perhaps best-known because of the circumstances of its composition, with Haydn appealing to his employer to allow the court musicians to return to their families. In the final movement the players leave the stage one by one until only two violins and the conductor remain. If you prefer stalls seats for this concert please let me know on the booking form.