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The concert
opens with the overture Berlioz wrote for Les Franc-Juges, an unfinished
opera based on a libretto by Humbert Ferrand. Berlioz abandoned the
opera and destroyed most of the music, but he kept the overture which
has become a popular concert item in its own right.
Dvorák's 16 Slavonic Dances were orignally composed as two sets of pieces for piano for four hands and were orchestrated soon after composition. They were inspired by Brahms' Hungarian Dances and are lively and overtly nationalistic. No. 6 is a Sousedská in D major.
Saint Saens composed his First Cello Concerto in A minor in 1872, at the age of 37. It was written for the Belgian cellist Auguste Tolbeque and was first performed in January 1873 with Tolbeque as soloist. On this occasion it will be played by Frédéric Steinbrüchel.
Brahms composed his second symphony in the summer of 1877. In comparison with the fifteen years it took to complete the first symphony, the gestation period was fairly brief. He wrote to his publisher that the symphony "is so melancholy that you will not be able to bear it. I have never written anything so sad, and the score must come out in mourning". In truth its cheerfulness is similar to the pastoral mood of Beethoven's sixth, particularly in contrast to the sombre tonality of the first.The premiere was given in in Vienna in December 1877 under Hans Richter.
Dvorák's 16 Slavonic Dances were orignally composed as two sets of pieces for piano for four hands and were orchestrated soon after composition. They were inspired by Brahms' Hungarian Dances and are lively and overtly nationalistic. No. 6 is a Sousedská in D major.
Saint Saens composed his First Cello Concerto in A minor in 1872, at the age of 37. It was written for the Belgian cellist Auguste Tolbeque and was first performed in January 1873 with Tolbeque as soloist. On this occasion it will be played by Frédéric Steinbrüchel.
Brahms composed his second symphony in the summer of 1877. In comparison with the fifteen years it took to complete the first symphony, the gestation period was fairly brief. He wrote to his publisher that the symphony "is so melancholy that you will not be able to bear it. I have never written anything so sad, and the score must come out in mourning". In truth its cheerfulness is similar to the pastoral mood of Beethoven's sixth, particularly in contrast to the sombre tonality of the first.The premiere was given in in Vienna in December 1877 under Hans Richter.
Neston Music Festival 2011
This year's orchestral programme
The Orchestral Concert will take place at 7.30 on Saturday 3rd September 2011 in Neston Parish Church