Havant Chamber Orchestra present a wide range of music for strings spanning more than 300 years.
Opening the concert will be a 20th century work by the British composer Benjamin Britten. His ‘Simple Symphony’ (which the players will tell you is anything but simple!) includes two baroque dances, a Bourrée and a Sarabande, alongside ‘Playful Pizzicato’ and ‘Frolicsome Finale’ and is a gorgeously lighthearted piece using tunes that Britten wrote when he was just a teenager.
A short ‘Romance’ by 19th Century Finnish composer, Sibelius, will be followed by the ‘Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten’ by Arvo Pärt. Pärt felt a close connection to Britten but could not fully access his music until he was able to leave Estonia in 1980 – four years after Britten’s death. The ‘Cantus’ was written to honour Britten and is written for strings and a bell.
The second half of the concert will consist of the intense ‘Chamber Symphony’ by Shostakovich – a transcription of his String Quartet no. 8 which was written in 1960 and dedicated to ‘the victims of fascism and the war’. Our Musical Director, Robin Browning, will give an introduction to this before we play it.
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