Concert Details
| Title: | Buxted Symphony Orchestra Concert in St Leonard's Church, Church Street Seaford |
| Performed by: | Buxted Symphony Orchestra |
| Promoted by: | St. Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Time: | Saturday, 21 June 2008, at 7:30pm |
| Place: | St Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Description: | Buxted Symphony Orchestra will present its first ever ‘away’ concert this summer. The event will take place in St. Leonard’s Church, Seaford on Saturday 23rd June at 7.30 pm. The programme will feature works by Gluck, Bruch — whose ever-popular violin concerto will be played by talented young Sussex soloist Chloe Wolpe — Rameau and Schubert. The orchestra will be conducted by Adrian Shepherd MBE. The concert opens with the overture to Iphigenia in Aulis, by Gluck. The orchestra likes to include in each of its concerts a lesser-known work which deserves to be heard more often, and this opera overture, full of dramatic contrasts, comes into this category. Bruch’s Violin Concerto in G minor, deservedly one of the most popular in the repertoire, needs little introduction, with its exciting first movement, slow movement of sublime, throat-catching beauty, powerful last movement and glorious ending. It will be performed by charming young soloist Chloe Wolpe — her second appearance with the orchestra. Chloe is just finishing her post-graduate studies in performing and teaching at the Royal Northern College of Music and Manchester Metropolitan University, having previously completed her Bachelor of Music at the Guildhall school of Music and Drama. The Buxted orchestra loves working with her, with a family connection too, in that her father Toby Wolpe is the orchestra’s principal trumpeter. The French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau’s ballet suite Platée gives a feeling of courtly life at the beginning of the eighteenth century and earlier, since this gently colourful work in four movements looks to earlier times as well as being very much of its day. The final work is Franz Schubert’s delightful “Little” C major Symphony — so-called purely in length comparison with the “Great” C major Symphony. This delightful earlier work, full of sunshine and sparkle, was composed between October 1817 and February 1818, and the influence of Beethoven, and to a lesser extent also Rossini, can be detected in it, though it is very much Schubert’s own, and in places foreshadows the grandeur of the “Great” C major that was to come later. Admission to the concert is by programme (£8, students £2, accompanied children free) available at the door. |
| Tickets: | £8.00 |
| Contact: | John Baker |
