Programme
‘A Little Night Music’
| Mozart | Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade no 13 for strings K 525) |
| Tchaikovsky | Andante cantabile (String quartet no 1. Op 11) |
| Alex Mills | Love Lullabies |
| Interval | |
| Borodin | Notturno (String quartet no 2) |
| Haydn | Symphony no 8 (Le soir) |
The Welsh Chamber Orchestra
We have been again extremely lucky to get this chamber orchestra for Curry Rivel. Their visit last year was wonderful; see below for a review.
The Orchestra was founded in 1986 and has performed with many of the world’s greatest soloists, undertaken several European concert tours and performed throughout the UK.
The Orchestra’s Artistic Director and Principal Conductor is Anthony Hose, who began piano lessons at the age of three and gave his first recital aged six.,
He studied at the Royal College of Music in London in Piano, Harpsichord and Conducting and in addition studied Clarinet and Double Bass. His conducting studies continued in Salzburg and with Rafael Kubelik in Munich and Geneva.
Anthony has worked with many orchestras throughout Europe and in the UK. He has also directed many opera house productions and has over 100 operas in his repertoire.
He is Director of Orchestras at Stetson University in Florida and has brought music students over to the UK on tour, including Curry Rivel, on three occasions before travelling north with them to perform at the Beaumaris Festival.
For more information, have a look at their website, at https://welshchamberorchestra.co.uk/about-2/
Review of the 2023 Concert
Curry Rivel Music is used to special treats but special became Special on 17th June when we were host to the Welsh Chamber Orchestra.
Solo performers we commonly have. Duos, trios and quartets and even quintets have entertained us but to have 21 musicians in the full flow of their professional careers was totally exceptional. From Wrexham, via Aberystwyth and Milford Haven they crossed the bridge and delivered a peerless performance of the music of Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams and Schubert together with the first English performance of Tonnau (Waves) by Gareth Hughes who, apart from being Welsh, had the distinction of being the only one of the composers alive.
None of this would have been possible without the involvement of the Orchestra’s principal conductor, Anthony Hose – a maestro whose musical training began at the age of three and encompassed mastery of piano, harpsichord, clarinet and double bass before his sympathetic and intuitive conducting took him to the podium of many European orchestras and, as we know, to being in charge of the Stetson University Orchestra. His intervention helped persuade the Welsh Government and the Arts Council of Wales to extend their charity to allow their immensely talented players to entertain us at Curry Rivel – an extraordinary event which we can never expect to repeat.
Those who were present have a precious memory.