Sunday 2 August 2009

Pre-Concert Talk

Angus Smith, Orlando Consort

The Orlando Consort introduces this new collaborative project which is inspired by sublime Iberian and Indian music from the early 1500s. Award-winning musicians recreate this historic cross-cultural encounter.

Mantra – Musical Conversations Across the Indian Ocean

Orlando Consort

Shahid Khan voice
Kuljit Bhamra tabla
Jonathan Mayer sitar

Some 500 years ago Portuguese missionaries arrived in Goa, India. The Orlando Consort and a trio of outstanding British Asian musicians, working in association with the National Centre for Early Music, celebrate the extraordinary encounter of Indians and Europeans that flourished in the ensuing years, and apply their experiences to create a radical new dialogue for the 21st century.

The Galliard Wind Ensemble

with Alexis White piano

Danzi Quartet in B flat, Op.56 No.1
Milhaud La Cheminée du roi René, Op.205
Mozart Quintet for piano and wind in E flat, K452
Nielsen Wind Quintet, Op.43
Bozza Scherzo, Op.48
Paul Patterson Westerly Winds (1999)

“One of the 10 chamber groups in the world to keep an eye on” Classic CD

“Top calibre performers” Barry Millington, London Evening Standard

A very welcome début collaboration between this popular wind ensemble and one of LDSM’s favourite young pianists. Performing the work which a 28-year-old Mozart proclaimed as “…the best thing I have so far written in my life”, and framed by some of the greatest wind quintet repertoire, this concert promises to be a special treat.