Surrey Mozart Players - Guildford Arts

Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia.
Wagner Wesendonck Lieder
Mahler ‘Blumine’ Movement
Respighi The Birds

Conductor: Philip Ellis
Soprano soloist: Janice Watson

Janice Watson, one of the world's leading sopranos, joins Surrey Mozart Players for Wagner's achingly beautiful songs set to words by Mathilde Wesendonck, with whom Wagner had a passionate but unconsumated relationship.
Vaughan Williams's justifiably famous Tallis Fantasia opens the concert. Mahler's Blumine movement, originally written for his first symphony, and Respighi's charming suite, The Birds, complete this not to be missed concert.

Holy Trinity Church, High Street Guildford, GU1 3RR

Vaughan Williams – Wasps Overture

Ravel – Piano Concerto in G Major

Sibelius – Symphony No. 3

Conductor: Phil Ellis

Piano soloist: Antoine Préat

An opportunity to hear some thrilling live music in the heart of Guildford in the historic surroundings and wonderful acoustic of Holy Trinity Church.

The concert opens with the Wasps overture offering a bustling succession of tunes.

Gifted young pianist, Antoine Préat is the soloist for Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major. Expect flamboyant music with a lightness of touch to delight the mind and senses but with depths of feeling beneath its glittering surfaces.

Finnish folk influences are to the fore in the 3^rd Symphony by Sibelius – good-natured, triumphant and deceptively simple sounding, this is a delight.

The Surrey Mozart Players are widely regarded as the UK's premier non-professional chamber orchestra, drawing its members from Surrey and surrounding counties. The orchestra performs a series of 5-6 concerts each season at the Electric Theatre, Guildford, under the baton of their Music Director Kenneth Woods.

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