ZEMLINSKY Sinfonietta (c.22 mins) R STRAUSS Oboe Concerto (c.23 mins)
SCHUMANN Symphony No.1 ‘Spring’ (c.30 mins)
Cristina Gómez Godoy oboe Matthias Pintscher conductor
Schumann’s elegant and dynamic ‘Spring’ Symphony races along
with a headstrong confidence as it gambols eagerly towards a world of
warmth and light. There are touches of wistful melancholy along the
way but it will send you out energised and with the broadest of
smiles. Our former Artist-in-Association, Matthias Pintscher, returns
to conduct and to champion the music of Alexander Zemlinsky. A major
musical figure in his day (he taught Schoenberg and Korngold), his
Sinfonietta is just like a Mahler symphony
in miniature, a late-Romantic work from Old Vienna that glitters like
a Klimt painting. And in between, light as a soufflé and just as
pleasurable, Richard Strauss’s Oboe Concerto, which yearns for
another era. In the hands of the outstanding Cristina Gómez Godoy,
its Mozartian finesse is bound to charm your socks off.
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(Price Band C & D).
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