Skip to main content.

sinfonia ViVA with Johannes Hinterholzer

Thursday 14th April 2011 at 7.30pm
Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham
Tickets: £10 to £32
Box Office: 0115 989 5555
Online booking available

Johannes Hinterholzer, copyright Andreas Haugh

... followed by AFTER:hours late-night concert: 9.40pm - 10.15pm (approx.) in the auditorium. Free admission to sinfonia ViVA bookers. £3 for non-bookers - tickets available on the door only. Programme as follows:

Internationally-celebrated Johannes Hinterholzer (horn) joins with sinfonia ViVA and Principal Conductor André de Ridder for tonight's tour-de-force of classics.

Fauré's Masques et Bergamasques looks back for its theme to the 18th century social gatherings of the French aristocratic elite at which music would often feature prominently. The orchestral suite is taken from the theatrical work which Faure composed at the request of Prince Albert I of Monaco, and which centres around the mocking observation of the well-to-do guests made by a group of commedia del arte ('comedy of art') characters who are meant to be entertaining them.

All Mozart's works for solo horn and orchestra date from the 1780's – a time in the instrument's development when it had no valves and a more limited range. No.4, the last, dates from 1786 and came just 2 months after The Marriage of Figaro. Mozart entered it into his thematic catalogue with the note 'for Leutgeb' (Ignaz Leutgeb, his friend of many years, for whom Mozart wrote all his solo horn works). The solo part in this work marks a further advance in technical difficulty.

Ravel's Pavane is an enduringly popular work, originally a piece for solo piano written while Ravel was studying composition in the last year of the 19th century. He published the orchestrated version in 1910 and though audiences loved both this and the piano original, on reflection the composer felt it too restrained even for a pavane (a traditionally slow dance). He dedicated the piece to the Princesse de Polignac, his patron.

Brahms Symphony No.3 in F major, Op90 of 1833 followed hot on the heels of some of his greatest works, including the Violin Concerto. Although better received than his Symphony No.2, the premiere was a stark occasion as disgruntled followers of the recently-deceased Richard Wagner (with whom Brahms had had a famous spat) threatened to disrupt proceedings. Nevertheless the premiere went ahead and Brahms continued to make revisions to the work until its publication the following summer.

And for those looking for more to hear, there's a special AFTER:hours late-night concert from 9.40pm to 10.15pm (approx.) featuring the Orchestra's 34-piece strings performing Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood's multi-faceted composition Popcorn Superhet Receiver and Japanese composer Toro Takemitsu's 1957 Requiem for Strings.

Supported by sinfonia ViVA and Arts Council England. The AFTER:hours concert is additionally supported by Orchestras Live.