French Hornist & Conducto James Sommerville

Advertisement / Publicité

This page is also available in / Cette page est également disponible en: Francais (French)

Airs, dances, and waltzes: French hornist and conductor James Sommerville

Our performance at this concert of Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes will offer Sommerville a welcome opportunity to show his considerable gifts as a conductor. Bursting with syncopation and interesting metre changes, the waltzes are also just that: oom-pah-pahing songs meant for popular audiences. Tremendous hits in Vienna (is there a better measure of a waltz’s mark?), the works earned Brahms a fortune — but, alas, not the hand of Clara Schumann, in whose honour it’s thought they were secretly written. Clara’s hands were more than full already with her demanding husband Robert, not to mention her career as one of Europe’s greatest pianists.

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-flat Major, K. 447
Ottorino Respighi
Ancient Airs and Dances – Suite III
Kati Agócs
Horn Concerto
Canadian premiere performance, co-commissioned by the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra with support from the Canada Council for the Arts
Johannes Brahms
Liebeslieder Waltzes, arr. Hermann

Event Artists

James Sommerville, horn soloist & conductor. Manitoba Chamber Orchestra

French Hornist & Conducto James Sommerville

Date/Time
Tuesday, May 31, 2022 - Wednesday, June 1, 2022
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Location
Westminster Church
745 Westminster Ave
Winnipeg,
Canada,

Price
$15-36

Phone
204-783-7377

Website
www.themco.ca/concert/james-sommerville-mco/

Facebook