{"id":4985,"date":"2019-02-24T17:44:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T17:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=4985"},"modified":"2019-02-24T17:44:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T17:44:23","slug":"brighton-philharmonic-orchestra-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=4985","title":{"rendered":"Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra, Sunday 3 March, 2.45pm, Brighton Dome <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Symphonic concerts generally fall into the same pattern – an overture, a concerto, an interval and then a symphony. But when you introduce a theme into the concert, the shape changes completely.<\/p>\n

For this our seventh concert in the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra\u2019s season, conducted by Barry Wordsworth, we have taken the theme of travel and the means to get to those far off exotic destinations. The holiday season is not that far away, so let your local orchestra introduce you to some stunning locations, and conjure up in music the means to get there.<\/p>\n

We open with probably the most popular and evocative travel piece written for orchestra, summoning up the wildness of a Scottish coast and sea by a German composer on holiday \u2013 Felix Mendelssohn\u2019s Overture to the Hebrides<\/em> and the particular place he loved to watch the sea – Fingal\u2019s Cave<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Hugo Alfv\u00e9n was born in 1872 and started out as a virtuoso violinist, but after becoming a composer he stood out as a great advocator of Swedish national romanticism. His rhapsody for orchestra Midsommarvaka<\/em> is in four sections and depicts a couple wandering alone in the Nordic light of mid-summer with a Swedish folk song band in the background \u2013 a fine description of youth, joy and humour wrapped up in melodic and harmonic elegance.<\/p>\n

Anatoly Lyadov was a very influential Russian composer. He was a very private man who famously wrote to his great friend Rimsky Korsakov \u201cGive me fairies and dragons, mermaids and goblins and I am thoroughly happy.\u201d His short essay in orchestration, Le Lac Enchant\u00e9<\/em>, shows what a talented composer he was, conjuring up the beauty of an enchanted lake in music.<\/p>\n

Arthur Honegger was born in 1882 to Swiss parents and studied in Paris. He, like Dvo?\u00e1k, was a great steam train enthusiast, and he wrote his one movement orchestral piece Pacific 231<\/em> inspired by a powerful steam engine \u2013 the numbers signifying the wheel combination. Honegger said in an interview that his aim was not to imitate the sound of a locomotive, but to convey in musical form a visual impression of the engine quietly at rest, and the sense of exertion as it starts up and speeds off into the night.<\/p>\n

Eric Coates (born in 1886) studied at the Royal Academy of Music and was Principal Viola of the Queens Hall Orchestra, playing under many of the great composers of the time including Elgar and Strauss. As a composer he came into his own in the 1920s and \u201830s as a brilliant writer of \u2018light classical\u2019 music. The London Suite<\/em> is typical of his creative writing and consists of three dances: Covent Garden (Tarantella), Westminster (Meditation) <\/em>and Knightsbridge (March). <\/em>The latter was for many years the signature tune to In Town Tonight<\/em> – in fact when it was first broadcast the BBC had over 20,000 phone calls asking the title of the piece!<\/p>\n

George Butterworth sadly died in the trenches of the First World War and was a composer who used the folk songs of Sussex, many collected in 1907 along with his friend Ralph Vaughan Williams. The Banks of Green Willow<\/em> was written in 1913 and depicts a typically English scene. Sir Adrian Boult premiered the work in Liverpool in 1914, his debut as a professional conductor.<\/p>\n

We finish this concert of travel, places and scenes with a brilliant fantasy for orchestra written by Tchaikovsky in 1880 after a trip to Rome with his brother. Capriccio Italien<\/em> is a compositional essay of the sounds, folk tunes and street music of the Italian capital. Opening with a bugle call, inspired by the early-morning sound of the barracks near his hotel, he moves on to a string melody, then recreates the sounds of street music and, after a quick march, we end with an orchestral tarantella.<\/p>\n

Tickets (\u00a312.50-\u00a339.50, 50% student\/U18 discount, children just \u00a31) from Brighton Dome Ticket Office, (01273) 709709, www.brightondome.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Discounted parking (just \u00a36 between 1pm and 6pm) is available for BPO concert-goers at NCP Church Street Car Park. Simply <\/em><\/strong>park as normal and <\/em><\/strong>collect a follow-on ticket at the concert.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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