400 years of Composer-Conductors

400 years of Composer-Conductors
26th April 2013 cyber

Date: Friday 26 April 2013
Venue: Teatru Manoel
Time: 19:30 hrs
Tickets: Eur 30, 20, 10 concessions Eur 5 (students and senior citizens)
smart card & culture card accepted
Booking: 21246389 bookings@teatrumanoel.com.mt

 


The composer-conductor is considered to be a 19th century bred new kind of musician, as exemplified by Felix Mendelssohn and Richard Wagner amongst others. These were men of autocratic and creative character who assumed full control over performance and brought to their work a single-minded creative viewpoint and a cultivated sensitivity that was a hallmark of much of the 19th-century period in music.This paved the way to other dynamic composers like Richard Strauss and Benjamin Britten who continued the tradition of their predecessors with flair and ingenuity.

Programme

  • Spohr              Faust, Overture
  • Mendelssohn Suite from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • Strauss           Oboe Concerto in D major
    soloist: Paolino Tona
  • Britten             Simple Symphony op 4
  • Vella               commisioned work (WORLD PREMIER)

FREE Pre-Concert Talk @ 18:45 hrs  Sala Isouard

MALTA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
leader Marcelline Agius
conductor JOSEPH VELLA