Saturday 7 February 2009

7:30 p.m. St Thomas's Church, Salisbury

Weber Symphony no. 2
Richard Strauss Oboe Concerto*
Bartók Romanian Folk Dances
Mozart Symphony no. 39
*Ian Murray Oboe
Tim Murray Conductor

Ian and Tim MurrayOur Musical Director, Tim Murray, is joined this evening by his father, Ian, for a performance of Richard Strauss's masterly Oboe Concerto. Despite being written when the composer was 81, the piece has a youthful Classicism, invoking the spirit of Mozart, whom Strauss so much admired.

The concert closes with an original example of this Classical perfection - one of Mozart's late, great symphonies - but not before Bartók has taken us on a whistle-stop tour of the Romanian countryside.

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