Event Description
Concert given by Orchestra Pro Anima with a Christmas flavour
Directed from the violin by Michael Bochmann MBE with Robert Plane (clarinet)
Programme
Corelli Concerto Grosso in G minor Op 6 No 8 ‘Christmas Concerto’
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A major K622
Interval
Handel Pastoral Symphony (from Messiah)
Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Op 28 for violin and strings
Borodin Nocturne
Adolphe Adam O Holy Night
Orchestra Pro Anima’s twice-yearly concerts at Christ Church continue to be popular. There are clear references to Christmas in this concert: in Corelli’s most famous work, his colourful and perennially loved ‘Christmas Concerto’; in a most tranquil interlude in Handel’s Messiah; and in an orchestral version of the timeless Christmas carol ‘O Holy Night’.
The celebrated clarinettist Robert Plane joins the Orchestra in the first half in a performance of Mozart’s utterly sublime Clarinet Concerto; Michael Bochmann is the soloist in the second half in Saint-Saëns’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, the former part plaintive, the latter dazzlingly virtuosic; and this will be followed by a string orchestra version of Borodin’s rhapsodic and deeply nostalgic Nocturne.
Tickets: £20 and £15 (students half-price and free entry for children aged 10 and under) – available from Malvern Tourist Information Centre on 01684 892289 and in person, and from The Courtyard, Hereford on 01432 340555, in person and online