dHPO – Spring Classics

We present a very classical programme with the now traditional format of an overture and concerto in the first half followed by a symphony to round off the concert. We begin with Rossini’s Barber of Seville Overture, originally composed for a different opera but now firmly established as the one we all know for the work claimed by Rossini to have been written in 12 days. Joseph Haydn’s ever popular Cello Concerto number 1 in C follows, written in the 1760s and then lost until the 1960s when a copy of the score was discovered in the Prague National Museum! The soloist will be our homegrown principal cellist Tim Steggals, more usually seen leading the de Havilland Philharmonic Orchestra cello section.

The second half of the concert will comprise Brahms’ mighty First Symphony, fourteen years in the making. The lengthy genesis may have been in part because Brahms felt the weight of the public’s expectation that he would continue the inheritance of fellow German composer Beethoven – definitely a hard musical act to follow. However Brahms need not have worried and his First Symphony is established as a wonderful symphony and one which we are certain you will all enjoy.

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