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The Surrey Mozart Players are delighted to present a concert of sweeping orchestral music for their Spring Concert.
Cecilia McDowall’s ‘Rain, Steam and Speed’ written in 2006 was inspired by Turner’s painting of the same name and is an atmospheric and symphonic journey along the Great Western Railway. In her own words, from her website (www.ceciliamcdowall.co.uk), Cecilia explains: “…. rather than follow a programmatic development of the title I have tried to convey a feeling of wide open spaces and pastoral repose in the opening section. Even the hare (a pair of clarinets) makes a playful appearance. In Turner’s painting the “iron horse” emerges from the distance, pressing powerfully forwards and so, from out of the calm, a clear rhythmic motif, pianissimo at first, rattles to a full orchestral crescendo, then gradually disappears from view.”
Mozart’s joyful Clarinet Concerto needs no introduction and will be performed by internationally renowned, virtuoso clarinettist, Sarah Williamson (BBC Young Musician Finalist in 2002).
Beethoven’s glorious and ground-breaking ‘Eroica’ Symphony completes the programme.
Kodály - Dances of Galánta
Schumann - Cello Concerto in A Minor
Reger - Mozart Variations
Cello Rachel Siu
Conductor Philip Ellis
Leader Annmarie McDade
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.
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 3rd 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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