In a programme putting our fantastic musicians front and centre we kick off our 2025-26 season in ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Hoddinott Hall with a showcase for our brass section – Schumann’s Four Marches.
In a programme putting our fantastic musicians front and centre we kick off our 2025-26 season in ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Hoddinott Hall with a showcase for our brass section – Schumann’s Four Marches.
In a programme putting our fantastic musicians front and centre we kick off our 2025-26 season in ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Hoddinott Hall with a showcase for our brass section – Schumann’s Four Marches, originally written for solo piano, makes a mighty first impression in this arrangement by our Principal Trombonist Donal Bannister. Premiered in Hereford at the 1949 Three Choirs Festival, Finzi’s Clarinet Concerto remains one of his best-known and most popular works and to perform this soulful and virtuosic work ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ NOW’s very own Principal Clarinet Nicholas Carpenter steps into the spotlight.
Championed by tonight’s conductor, Gergely Madaras, Franck’s Symphony in D minor was his last major work and only symphony. The gently lyrical and radiantly joyous themes of the first movement contrast with a hybrid second movement which fuses gentle pizzicato strings beneath a haunting cor anglais solo with two scherzo trios, before joyousness pervades the final movement which ingeniously reworks previous themes to round out this magnificent symphony.
