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Next Care Home Concerts

Thursday 5th November 2015

ESO Wind Quartet: 

Catherine Handley flute,
Graeme Adams oboe,
Julia Holmes clarinet,
Keith Rubach bassoon;

Breme Residential Care Home, Bromsgrove;
Rashwood, Wychbold, Droitwich;
Dorset House Nursing & Residential Care Home, Droitwich

Programme

Clarke   Trumpet Voluntary

Elgar   Chanson de Matin

Trad   Greensleeves

Vivaldi   Allegro non molto from Concerto in G minor

Mozart   Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Handel   La Réjouissance (from Music for the Royal Fireworks)

Richard Rodney Bennett   Travel Notes 2:

In an air-balloon; In a bath chair; Car-chase

Arlen   Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Arden-Taylor   Bach Goes to Sea

Traditional   Danny Boy

Traditional   Turkey in the Straw

Kern   Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Cole Porter   Anything Goes

Haydn Wood   Roses of Picardy

 

 

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17 June, 2015: Magna Carta Festival: Prayers for Peace and Freedom

 

17 June, 2014
12:15 PM
ESO Chamber Music
Magna Carta Celebrations at Worcester Cathedral
8 College Yard, Worcester WR1 2LA
Janine Smith- piano
ESO Cello improvisation based on the subject of freedom.
Shostakovich –   Sonata in D minor opus 40.
Amazing Grace.
Castelnuovo-Tedesco-    Figaro
Possible encore- Casals-Song of the Birds.
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 This programme celebrates Magna Carta by exploring the theme of freedom. We begin with a cello improvisation based on the concept of liberty and the rights of the people. The Shostakovich sonata reflects his response to the oppression of the communist regime that he was living under. Amazing Grace tells the story of slave trader John Newton’s conversion and conveys his vision of freedom through the grace of God.  Finally The Marriage of Figaro depicts the peasants’ response to the droit de seigneur which gave rulers unlimited powers over their subjects – their comic victory reflects the real curtailing of such powers in Magna Carta.