Imagine waking up to the Siegfried Idyll: that’s just how Wagner’s wife first heard it on Christmas morning in 1870, and it’s among his most delicate works – an ideal way to start a concert exploring an unexpected side to favourite composers.
Mozart shows his affinity for wind instruments in a surprisingly early Sinfonia Concertante, written for some of the finest musicians of his day and performed here by SCO Principals – after which Beethoven defies expectations in his Symphony No 2, arguably even more revolutionary a work than the Eroica of two years later.
Kindly supported by Eriadne & George Mackintosh and Claire & Anthony Tait.
Programme
WAGNER Siegfried Idyll
MOZART Sinfonia Concertante K297b
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 2
Karel Deseure: Conductor
Robin Williams: Oboe
Maximiliano Martín: Clarinet
Cerys Ambrose-Evans: Bassoon
Lauren Reeve-Rawlings: Horn
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