Autumn Concert 2022
Well done to the ten ensembles involved in the Autumn Concert – a fantastic evening in the chapel despite the atrocious weather outside!
Concert band, fronted by Ella on solo oboe, opened with a fiery and colourful version of Piazzolla’s classic Libertango, Cello Ensemble later continuing the Latin American theme with ‘Hoy Mondongo’ complete with glissando and behind the bridge techniques.
Sax Ensemble and Guitar Ensemble gave us new takes on two folk tunes, Clarinet Group a new version of Gershwin’s Piano Prelude I, and the 10-piece Brass Ensemble entertained us with a humorous portrayal of the musical cat ‘Mr Jums’.
Sublime classical items came courtesy of the Flute Ensemble in Bizet, and the Wind Quintet in a charming Danzi Allegretto, and the Oboe-Violin-Viola-Cello Quartet in the Adagio and Rondo of Mozart’s masterpiece K.370.
The orchestra concluded the evening with the large festive tone poem Capriccio espagnol by Rimsky-Korsakov, featuring virtuosic clarinet, flute and violin cadenzas in the midst of a vivid sequence of Spanish dances, ending with a whirling Fandango complete with castanets!
A video from the concert can be found on the Music Department twitter page here.
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