The Solent Concert Orchestra recently performed a programme of well-known pieces and a few lesser well-known pieces in support of the Honeypot children\u2019s charity at Bramshaw Village Hall under the baton of their musical director, Simon Wilkins.<\/p>\n
The concert got off to a rousing start with Verdi\u2019s Nabucco with its famous Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves. This was followed by Ferdinand Herold\u2019s foot- tapping Clog Dance. The orchestra then managed to capture the sensitive textual contrasts of Delius\u2019s The Walk to the Paradise Garden from the opera A Village Romeo and Juliet.<\/p>\n
Solent Concert Orchestra<\/p>\n
The next piece was probably the most challenging of the evening; Franz Liszt\u2019s Les Preludes combined lilting melodies with fast arpeggios. The result was loudly applauded by the audience and richly deserved.<\/p>\n
Beethoven\u2019s Creatures of Prometheus overture got the second half of the evening underway. This, too, gathered pace as it progressed finishing with a final flourish. This was followed by extracts from Saint-Saens\u2019 Henry VIII Ballet-Divertissement containing some easily recognisable English, Scottish and Irish folk melodies.<\/p>\n
Delibes\u2019s delightful Prelude to the Ballet Sylvia brought the programme to its final item, namely pieces from Bizet\u2019s Carmen Suites 1 and 2. Rumbustuous renditions of The Toreadors March and Chanson was greeted with rapturous applause with the former being repeated as an encore.<\/p>\n
A most successful concert was thus concluded which enabled generous donations to be given to the much deserving Honeypot Children\u2019s Charity. The supporting presence of co-patron Lady Fiona Lewis was much appreciated.<\/p>\n
The Solent Concert Orchestra\u2019s next concert is at URC, Cornerstone, Hythe on Saturday 15th November which will feature Lalo\u2019s cello concerto and Mendelssohn\u2019s \u2018Italian\u2019 symphony. More details are available at: www.solentconcertorchestra.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Howard Moore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Solent Concert Orchestra recently performed a programme of well-known pieces and a few lesser well-known pieces in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,269,6082,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-263641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-reviews","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114850395819471099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}