Photo Pierre Toussaint
Session 2 | 25 July
Led by internationally renowned conductor, Jonothan Lo, Session 2 opens with Maurice Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, which calls to the audience from across many different divides. Set out as a multi movement suite, the music presents itself as an homage to Couperin and the style of the French Baroque. However, Ravel personalised his music further by dedicating each movement to a friend who had been killed in action in World War I.
Thought to be the most prolific composer in all of history, Georg Philipp Telemann shines in all his glory in the Trumpet Concerto in D. This evening’s soloist, Mark Fitzpatrick, will showcase the very best of his expressive capabilities from dazzling and athletic virtuosity to the trumpet’s ability to sing like no other.
Finally, in her Symphony No. 3, Louise Farrenc shows us not only her formidable compositional prowess, but her sheer determination as an individual. Composing a symphony (instead of an opera) in 1840s France was very much not the done thing, and getting it performed was even harder. Only after nearly a decade of employment at the Paris Conservatory was her work selected for performance by the resident orchestral society. The music itself is full of romantic conviction and is the perfect blend of the then Germanic symphonic structure and the zest and zeal of 19th century French style.
Conductor Jonathan Lo
Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
Telemann Trumpet Concerto in D major
Soloist: Mark Fitzpatrick, Section Principal Trumpet
Farrenc Symphony No. 3
