London Philharmonic Orchestra at Eastbourne 08/12/2024

Overview

STRAUSS’S HORN CONCERTO NO.2.  Mozart Overture, The Marriage of Figaro (5’)  R Strauss Horn Concerto No. 2 (20’)  Dvořák Symphony No. 8 (36’)  Artists.  Valentina Peleggi, Conductor.  Ben Goldscheider, Horn.  Strange but true: they used to call Dvořák’s Eighth his ‘English’ symphony. Yet its lilting melodies and exuberant dance rhythms could hardly be more Czech – the sound of a composer who’s thoroughly at home, and loving it. Pure sunshine, in other words, and in the hands of conductor Valentina Peleggi it’s a gloriously tuneful climax to a concert that begins with Mozart’s comedy overture and stars the internationally-acclaimed young British horn player Ben Goldscheider in Richard Strauss’s playful Second Horn Concerto.

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