The musicians of the Chiltern Camerata follow up their critically acclaimed recent performance of the Brahms German Requiem when they return for the final concert of their current season. This forms part of the Wycombe Arts Festival , and takes place on Saturday, 13 May at 7.30 pm at the Church of St Lawrence, West Wycombe Hill - an ideal summer venue - when we will perform orchestral music by Schubert, Nielsen, Haydn and Arvo Pärt.
The programme features two delightful and well-known symphonies: Haydn's Symphony No 85 in B flat- known as 'La reine' and Schubert's charming Symphony No 5, coincidentally in the same key!
The high spot for many will be our performance of the virtuosic Clarinet concerto by Carl Nielsen in which the soloist will be Mandy Burvill. Mandy is a celebrated player and soloist. She spent 10 years with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and more recently as a freelance players has played with groups such as the BBC Philharmonic, the Hallé, Northern Sinfonia, Manchester Camerata, Northern Ballet and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
We also feature a brief work by the living Estonian composer Arvo Pärt - his Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, written for string orchestra and a solitary tubular bell.
Tickets from any of the following:
The dedicated Wycombe Arts Festival number for telephone bookings with credit/debit cards is 01628 483597
Tickets also available from:
Information Offices in
High Wycombe (Main Library);
Marlow (Institute Road);
Princes Risborough.
Music Shops:
The Record Shop, 37 Hill Avenue, Amersham
Perfect Pitch, 72, The Broadway, Chesham;
Rosehill Instruments, 64 London End, Beaconsfield;
Strings of Penn, Elm Road, Penn.
The Chiltern Camerata perhaps needs little introduction: Founded 1996, this chamber orchestra of music professionals and advanced amateurs presents innovative and attractive concerts in and around the Chilterns and ThamesValley. Sam Laughton has been the orchestra's Director of Music since 2009 and has enabled the group to bring ever more imaginative and interesting performances to our community.