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HKBU AC Hall, composition concert 2010 May. Cynthia Luff, mezzo-soprano. Donald Yu, Piano
Score published by Donemus 2023, audio released by Donemus Records 2024

Three Sensual Love Poems for mezzo-soprano and piano (2010) (excerpt)

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Charles Avison (pictured): Concerto Grosso No 5 in D minor Largo – a superb start from Newcastle born composer, conductor and organist considered to be the best English concerto composer of the 18th century

Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C major 3rd movement Menuetto allegro molto e vivace – dedicated to a Dutch-born Austrian diplomat and patron

Shostakovitch: Piano Concerto No 2 in F major 2nd movement Andante – listen to the violins, violas and cellos starting the movement in a meditative mood

Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor 1st movement Allegro non troppo and 3rd movement Allegro giocoso poco meno presto – hear what Brahms said to his friends about this piece

Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No 2 Arabian Dance – commissioned after meeting the playwright Henrik Ibsen; this is one of the 33 incidental pieces Grieg composed

Crusell: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in E flat 3rd movement Rondo allegretto – including some incredibly fast finger work

Binge: Elizabethan Serenade – from a contemporary Derby-born composed and used by the BBC in the 1950s for the popular series Music Tapestry

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G Allegro – find out how the 6 concertos got their name

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COFFEE BREAK Three Adagios composed for the cello in a Boccherini sandwich

Boccherini: Concerto in D for Cello and Strings

Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor

Boccherini: Cello Concerto No 9 in B flat

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Delibes: Lakme Duo des fleurs- Flower duet – the story of the daughter of a Brahmin priest and her maid gathering flowers by the river

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A Italian 1st movement Allegro vivace and 3rd movement Con moto moderato – written following a 10 month tour of Italy

Mozart: Symphony No 40 in G minor K550 4th movement Finale allegro assai – first conducted by Antonio Salieri in 1791 and part of this month’s programme from the Amersham Festival of Music (hear Artistic Director Chris Hopkins speak via listen again in Classics Count from 28th September)

Dvorak: Symphony No 8 in G major 3rd movement allegretto grazioso – the ideas for this symphony came so fast to Dvorak in 1889 that he struggled to write them down

Debussy: Preludes Book 1 No 8 The Girl with Flaxen Hair – a short piece for solo piano from this French composer

12 October 25

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As You Like It is a chamber opera, based on a tale by Shakespeare. 

vocals                  Caro Verheyen
cello                     Angelika Rizopoulou
harp                     Sielke Ramakers
flugelhorn           Gabriel Long
electric guitar     Edoardo Cimino
director               Emma Verstraete
    
Special thanks to

my teacher Annelies Van Parys
conductor Bart Bouckaert
sound & mix Seppe Indigne
graphics Tato Greve
literary advise Sena Nyamador

As You Like It

Martin Clarke is a Freelance Journalist & Presenter:
Check out our web site www.classicscount.org

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