March 2019 Concert
Programme Notes
Poet and Peasant Overture – Franz von Suppé
Piano Concerto No.5 – Ludwig van Beethoven
– Soloist – Harry Fox
Symphony No.2 – Charles Ives
YouTube
- Poet and Peasant Overture - Franz von Suppe - Conducted by Sir Georg Solti
- 5th Piano Concerto - Ludwig von Beethoven - Soloist and Conductor - Daniel Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin
- Symphony No.2 - Charles Ives - Leonard Bernstein - New York Philharmonic
Programme Notes
Bryan on Charles Ives’ Second Symphony
Listen to this interview with our Conductor and Musical Director, Bryan Western, on why he loves this symphony, and why he has been itching to perform it with an orchestra for over 30 years!
Bryan’s the first to admit that, when the name Ives comes up, many people just go ‘Ooooouch!’ They’ve heard a bit of Ives – maybe a bit of his most performed piece, The Unanswered Question, and written him off as a rather discordant contemporary composer. But Bryan insists, “The second symphony is just not like that! There are so many wonderful tunes, all woven together, different keys, different rhythms; it’s quirky, it’s experimental, it’s just fantastic.”