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Karel Deseure, conducting with a serious expression on his face, in front of a background with geometrical shapes in pink and green.

Mozart & Beethoven

St Andrews
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Programme

  • Wagner

    Siegfried Idyll

  • Mozart

    Sinfonia Concertante K297b

  • Beethoven

    Symphony No 2

Karel Deseure Conductor
Katherine Bryer Oboe
Maximiliano Martín Clarinet
Cerys Ambrose-Evans Bassoon
Stephen Stirling Horn

Warmth, affection, sunny optimism – all come together in this joyful late-summer concert under the perceptive direction of exciting young Belgian conductor Karel Deseure.

The SCO is rightly renowned for its exceptional wind players, and four of them step out of the Orchestra as soloists in Mozart’s jolly, jaunty Sinfonia Concertante for oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn – with singing melodies that show off those instruments’ distinctive personalities.

Wagner drew on themes from his epic Ring cycle of operas in his intimate orchestral Siegfried Idyll, written to awaken his beloved wife on her birthday, while the playful Second Symphony shows Beethoven at his most life-affirming.

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