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Trinity Orchestra: Mendelssohn, Spohr, Beethoven

Gonzalo Acostsa

0	HARROW: Trinity Church
P	Saturday 23rd March, 2019
N	7:00pm

Event information

MENDELSSOHN The Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave)
SPOHR Clarinet Concerto No. 4
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

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Pre-concert talk at 7pm

Concert begins at 7.30pm

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We are delighted to welcome back distinguished clarinettist Colin Lawson, Director of the Royal College of Music and good friend of Trinity Orchestra, to perform the sparkling Clarinet Concerto No. 4 by Louis Spohr under the baton of guest conductor Gonzalo Acosta.

The orchestra will also perform the Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave) by Felix Mendelssohn. This ever-popular work was written in 1829, after Mendelssohn took a memorable trip to the Scottish Island of Staffa and its famous Fingal’s Cave. On the journey he wrote the first few bars of what became the Hebrides Overture on a postcard to his sister saying “how extraordinarily the Hebrides affected me”.

Ending the evening will be the glorious Symphony No. 7 by Ludwig Van Beethoven. The work was premiered, with Beethoven himself conducting, in Vienna on 8 December 1813. Described by Wagner as “the apotheosis of the dance”, this four-movement symphony begins in a sombre fashion but ends exuberantly. The finale was apparently summed up by Tchaikovsky as 'a whole series of images, full of unrestrained joy, full of bliss and pleasure of life'.

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Free tickets for under 18s and £5 tickets for students are available from the Trinity Orchestra Box Office on 020 8428 5924 or at the door (subject to availability).