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***updated conductor***
NICHOLAS MCGEGAN conducts
BRADLEY HUNTER WELCH organ
HAYDN Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major “Drum Roll”
HANDEL Organ Concerto “The Cuckoo and the Nightingale”
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4 in A major “Italian”
An All-German composer line-up featuring works with inventive nicknames, begins with Haydn’s penultimate symphony, No. 103, which demands full attention from the opening timpani drumroll and a sublime slow movement that elicited an immediate encore at its premiere in London.
Marvel at the sound of the 4,535-pipe Lay Family Concert Organ in Handel’s witty “Cuckoo and the Nightingale” Concerto, in which the organ’s wind stops seem to twitter like a cuckoo and warble like a nightingale.
Inspired by the art, landscape and vitality of Italy and the people Mendelssohn met during his trip, his last Fourth Symphony is brimming with rhythmic energy and counterpoint, and is a major workout for the orchestra.
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