Philharmonia Orchestra: Sir Charles Mackerras memorial concert

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Sir Charles Mackerras memorial concert

Royal Festival Hall
Thu 4 Nov 2010 7:00pm

Tomáš Netopil

conductor

Alexander Briger

conductor

Julian Rachlin

violin

Lawrence Power

viola

Sir Thomas Allen

baritone

Sebastian Cox

treble

Steven Devine

director

Rebecca Evans

soprano

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment


Handel	Music for the Royal Fireworks
Handel	Let the bright seraphim (Samson)
Handel	How beautiful are the feet (Messiah)
Dvořák	Symphony No. 7
Mozart	Sinfonia Concertante, K364
Janáček	Suite, The Cunning Little Vixen (arr. Mackerras)
Janáček	Final scene, The Cunning Little Vixen

The musical world was deeply saddened to learn of Sir Charles Mackerras’s death in July. The Philharmonia had a very close relationship with him as Principal Guest Conductor, and in honour of this relationship has decided to perform the concert on 4 November (which he was scheduled to conduct) in his memory.

The Orchestra is enormously grateful to the Mackerras family for their invaluable input in putting together this memorial concert, helping to ensure that the programme reflects Sir Charles’s own wishes. The programme will now include music from Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7: pinnacles of the Czech repertoire that Sir Charles championed throughout his lifetime. The concert will be conducted by Tomáš Netopil, another specialist in Czech repertoire, and by Sir Charles’s nephew, Alexander Briger.

The Philharmonia is delighted to share the concert with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, who also worked closely with Sir Charles over many years.

The concert will be introduced by Anthony Andrews.

Please note that this concert will now begin at 7.00pm. There will no longer be a pre-concert talk.