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BRISTOL CLASSICAL PLAYERS
NEXT CONCERTS
Saturday 30th September 2023
7.00pm
Pittville Pump Room
Tenor
James Gilchrist
Horn
Kelly Haines
Conductor
Tom Gauterin
Programme
For their opening concert of 2023/4, Bristol Classical Players are delighted to welcome world-class tenor (and Cheltenham resident) James Gilchrist. Alongside hornist Kelly Haines, he will perform Britten’s magical Serenade, a tribute to the tenor voice taking some of the most beautiful English poetry as its starting point.
The concert begins with Vaughan Williams’s haunting Tallis Fantasia, a still-extraordinary fusion of Tudor and 20th century influences that remains one of the greatest works for strings ever written. A short piece for winds by Ruth Gipps, composer of five symphonies only now emerging from a lifetime’s neglect, is followed by Elgar’s much-loved portrait of ‘my friends within’, at the heart of which lies Nimrod, one of Elgar’s most noble (and popular) inspirations.
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Pittville Pump Room
Cheltenham GL52 3JE
Saturday 21st October 2023
7.30pm
St George's Bristol
Viola
Rebecca Chambers
Conductor
Tom Gauterin
Programme
Where Elgar led, other radicals followed: Suffragrette Ethel Smyth’s rollicking overture to her seafaring Cornish opera ‘The Wreckers’ is followed by Walton’s bittersweet Viola Concerto, written when he was the enfant terrible of the British music scene. We are delighted to welcome Rebecca Chambers, Principal Viola of English National Opera, as tonight’s soloist.
The programme is completed by Vaughan Williams’s immortal Tallis Fantasia. Rarely far from the top of Classic FM’s annual chart, this soaring work combines Tudor inspiration with 20th century harmony and power.
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St George’s Bristol
Great George Street
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Bristol, BS1 5RR
Saturday 3rd February 2024
7.30pm
St George's Bristol
Piano
Rupert Egerton Smith
Conductor
Tom Gauterin
Programme
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Sunday 18th February 2024
7.00pm
Pittville Pump Room
Piano
Sir Stephen Hough
Conductor
Tom Gauterin
Programme
Following a sold-out Rachmaninov series, Bristol Classical Players are delighted to welcome back international concert pianist Sir Stephen Hough, to perform Dvorak’s beautiful and underrated Piano Concerto. Overshadowed by his Cello Concerto, this lovely work gives full reign to Dvorak’s vein of fantasy and delight in the natural world. It speaks of the woods and wildlife of his native Bohemia, alternating storms with passages of the most gentle stillness and reflection.
The concert begins deep in the woods too, with the overture to Weber’s groundbreaking opera Der Freischutz; this mixture of love story and ghostly fable includes the still-terrifying Wolf’s Glen Scene, and the overture conjures up its unique combination of joyous melody and spooky noises-off to perfection. Brahms’s mighty First Symphony, nicknamed ‘Beethoven’s 10th’ at the time, remains one of the greatest works in music history, a masterpiece that Brahms perfected over more than 20 years’ work and which ends with a trombone chorale bringing the music into purest daylight.
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