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Colin Currie, percussion

with Northern Chamber Orchestra

Part of the Manchester Concert Season 2019-20

Add to my Calendar 17-01-2020 19:30 17-01-2020 21:30 36 Colin Currie, percussion For our first Manchester concert of the New Year, we welcome the marvellously talented Scottish percussionist, Colin Currie. He is playing an entertaining piece by contemporary Viennese composer Kurt Schwertsik, whose works are characterised by his particular exploration of tonality, musical irony and humour. Colin also partners NCO’s principal clarinet, Elizabeth Jordan, in the atmospheric Nocturne by Stephen Barlow, with whom the orchestra spent many happy years in the pit at the Buxton Festival, and who conducts the piece during the concert. Dvořák’s Serenade, in five movements, contains a waltz, a scherzo and one of his loveliest slow movements. The high-spirited finale eventually returns to the benign calm of the opening section, giving an arch-like structure to the whole piece. Delius’ glowing harmonies and Grieg’s bracing opener make up the rest of the programme. Stoller Hall, Manchester DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Stoller Hall
Hunts Bank
Manchester
M3 1DA
England

Programme

Edvard Grieg – Holberg suite: Praeludium
Stephen Barlow – Nocturne for clarinet, marimba and strings
Kurt Schwertsik – Now you hear me, now you don’t
Frederick Delius – 2 Aquarelles
Antonin Dvorak – Serenade for Strings, Op.22

Performers

Colin Currie – Percussion
Nicholas Ward – Director

Northern Chamber Orchestra

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Programme Note

For our first Manchester concert of the New Year, we welcome the marvellously talented Scottish percussionist, Colin Currie. He is playing an entertaining piece by contemporary Viennese composer Kurt Schwertsik, whose works are characterised by his particular exploration of tonality, musical irony and humour. Colin also partners NCO’s principal clarinet, Elizabeth Jordan, in the atmospheric Nocturne by Stephen Barlow, with whom the orchestra spent many happy years in the pit at the Buxton Festival, and who conducts the piece during the concert. Dvořák’s Serenade, in five movements, contains a waltz, a scherzo and one of his loveliest slow movements. The high-spirited finale eventually returns to the benign calm of the opening section, giving an arch-like structure to the whole piece. Delius’ glowing harmonies and Grieg’s bracing opener make up the rest of the programme.

Colin Currie, percussion

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