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A Night at the Ballet with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

An eclectic programme featuring two incredible woodwind soloists to perform Strauss’ ‘Duet Concertino’

Part of the Sheffield International Concert Season 2019/20

Add to my Calendar 30-11-2019 19:00 30-11-2019 21:00 36 A Night at the Ballet with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Richard Strauss’s graphic Duet Concertino for clarinet, bassoon and orchestra was the composer’s final instrumental work. Its first movement is dominated by the solo clarinet representing a dancing princess, the second by a bassoon signifying a cavorting bear. Finally the princess dances with the bear and it becomes a prince.This concert also includes two seminal ballet scores adapted or specially written for the great choreographer Sergei Diaghilev. Falla’s vibrant The Three Cornered Hat is full of colour and the influence of Spanish dance. Stravinsky’s pulsating Petrushka comes with carousels, concertinas, dancers and popular songs. It ends with the eerie appearance of the puppet Petrushka’s ghost. The talented Jaume Santonja Espinós also conducts Beethoven’s dramatic and stirring Egmont Overture. Pre-concert talk with BBC Broadcaster Trisha Cooper starts at 6pm. Sheffield City Hall, Sheffield DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Sheffield City Hall
Barker's Pool
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S1 2JA
England

Programme

Ludwig van Beethoven – Egmont, Op.84: Overture
Richard Strauss – Duett-Concertino, TrV 293
Manuel de Falla – The Three Cornered Hat: Selections
~ Interval ~
Igor Stravinsky – Petrushka, 1947

Performers

Jaume Santonja Espinós – Conductor
Oliver Janes – clarinet
Nikolaj Henriques – bassoon

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

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Programme Note

Richard Strauss’s graphic Duet Concertino for clarinet, bassoon and orchestra was the composer’s final instrumental work. Its first movement is dominated by the solo clarinet representing a dancing princess, the second by a bassoon signifying a cavorting bear. Finally the princess dances with the bear and it becomes a prince.

This concert also includes two seminal ballet scores adapted or specially written for the great choreographer Sergei Diaghilev. Falla’s vibrant The Three Cornered Hat is full of colour and the influence of Spanish dance. Stravinsky’s pulsating Petrushka comes with carousels, concertinas, dancers and popular songs. It ends with the eerie appearance of the puppet Petrushka’s ghost.

The talented Jaume Santonja Espinós also conducts Beethoven’s dramatic and stirring Egmont Overture.


Pre-concert talk with BBC Broadcaster Trisha Cooper starts at 6pm.

Jaume Santonja Espinós, credit Kevinde Borger

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