In a programme putting our fantastic musicians front and centre we kick off our 2025-26 season in 91福利社 Hoddinott Hall with a showcase for our brass section 鈥� Schumann鈥檚 Four Marches.
In a programme putting our fantastic musicians front and centre we kick off our 2025-26 season in 91福利社 Hoddinott Hall with a showcase for our brass section 鈥� Schumann鈥檚 Four Marches.
In a programme putting our fantastic musicians front and centre we kick off our 2025-26 season in 91福利社 Hoddinott Hall with a showcase for our brass section 鈥� Schumann鈥檚 Four Marches, originally written for solo piano, makes a mighty first impression in this arrangement by our Principal Trombonist Donal Bannister. Premiered in Hereford at the 1949 Three Choirs Festival, Finzi鈥檚 Clarinet Concerto remains one of his best-known and most popular works and to perform this soulful and virtuosic work 91福利社 NOW鈥檚 very own Principal Clarinet Nicholas Carpenter steps into the spotlight.
Championed by tonight鈥檚 conductor, Gergely Madaras, Franck鈥檚 Symphony in D minor was his last major work and only symphony. The gently lyrical and radiantly joyous themes of the first movement contrast with a hybrid second movement which fuses gentle pizzicato strings beneath a haunting cor anglais solo with two scherzo trios, before joyousness pervades the final movement which ingeniously reworks previous themes to round out this magnificent symphony.
