The Oboe Has All The Tunes

A Kew Sinfonia concert at St Michael & All Angels

Polly Bartlett

A concert will be performed by the Kew Sinfonia entitled - The Oboe has all the Tunes - on Saturday 6 October, at 7.30pm.
at St Michael and All Angels Church, Bath Road.

Polly Bartlett will perform Richard Strauss's Oboe Concerto which has a pastoral quality, with a highly tuneful solo part which expresses nostalgia for the 18th century.

The theme of tuneful nostalgia is also there in Charles Ives's Third Symphony which harks back sentimentally to a nineteenth-century childhood of hymns, bells, and children's games.

Beethoven's Eighth Symphony is light-hearted and energetic. Beethoven was nominally the conductor of the first performance, though the orchestra largely ignored his ungainly gestures and followed the principal violinist instead. Kew Sinfonia couldn't wish for a more superb leader than Cathy Schofield of the Bridge Quartet, and Marc Dooley is a brilliant conductor and this his final concert as the group's Principal Conductor.

Soloist Polly Bartlett is supported by the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Musicians Programme. She was woodwind finalist in the BBC Young Musician 2016 with her performances being broadcast on both BBC Radio 3 and BBC 4 television.

Kew Sinfonia
Catherine Schofield (leader)
Polly Bartlett (oboe)
Marc Dooley (conductor)
Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in D AV144 - Richard Strauss
Coriolan Overture Op 62 - Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 3, 'The Camp Meeting' - Charles Ives
Symphony No 8 in F Op 93 - Ludwig van Beethoven

Tickets are £15 or £6 for students. If not bought online in advance they may be available at the door.

September 29, 2018