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Wednesday 8th February 2012 **7.00 pm **Please note earlier start time
Local Young Musicians' Concert Not to be missed, we had a full house last year for an evening of amazing variety given by the enthusiastic and gifted young musicians of Keswick. Members will be entertained and thrilled by the talent displayed and the range of music played. The members' subscription includes this concert, but members' seats are not reserved. |
| Stop Press Sunday 12th February 2012 - Northern Sinfonia Open Rehearsal The Open Rehearsal will now start at 4.30 pm (not 3pm as advertised previously) Open Rehearsal - 4.30 pm - free entry for children of all ages accompanied by an adult It will go on until 5.45 pm but you do not need to stay for all that time, you are free to leave at any time - the Northern Sinfonia are very happy for people to creep out. |
| Sunday 12th February
2012 7.30 pm Northern Sinfonia Kyra Humphreys director / violin Louisa Tuck director / cello Katherine Manley soprano Juliette Bausor flute Villa Lobos: Bachianas Brasilieras No.1, for eight violoncelli Piazolla: Four Seasons of Buenos Aires Bach: Suite No. 2 in B minor for flute and strings Osvaldo Golijov: Last Round Villa Lobos: Bachianas Brasilleras No. 5 for soprano and violoncello  Once again we are delighted to welcome Northern
Sinfonia to Keswick: a terrific
programme combining the music and traditions of the old and new world.
Like all
Bach’s orchestral suites the second, ending with the lively
‘Badinerie’, was
based on the dance music of his day. Bach’s influence is
clear in Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas
Brasileiras suites; Baroque harmonic and contrapuntal
procedures are freely
adapted to Brazilian music, influenced by the Tango. While the Bach
suite features
the flute, the Villa-Lobos music requires a band of eight cellos and a
soprano:
the distinguished young soprano Katherine
Manley who has sung to great acclaim with English National Opera, Opera North and Garsington
Opera. Astor Piazzolla took Vivaldi as a starting point
in The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, a
kind of homage both to the Tango and to Vivaldi’s music. Golijov (b. 1960), an East European raised in
Argentina and trained in the USA, combines traditions of classical
chamber music
and Jewish liturgical music with hints of the tango of Piazzolla. His piece depicts an
imaginary chance for Piazzolla's spirit to fight one more time after
his death
in 1992. Find out more about the Northern Sinfonia |