A concert by the Chiltern Camerata "Northern Lights" March 27, 2010

Our highly popular Director of Music Sam Laughton, joins us once again to conduct a programme entitled ‘Northern Lights’, reflecting the Nordic and Baltic roots of much of the music

Programme
• Grieg – Holberg Suite
• Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
• Peter Maxwell Davies – Start Point
• Sibelius – Impromptu
• Arvo Pärt - Orient and Occident
• Elgar - Serenade for Strings

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The Grieg, Vaughan Williams and Elgar works will need no introduction? Of the other items:

Start Point is a 10-minute work for string orchestra consisting of a collection of four tunes written for the Sanday Fiddle Club on Orkney. First performed in their entirety in 2006 at the St Magnus Festival, the names of the tunes are names of places on the Orkney Islands. Evocative & unassuming, the appealing character & flexibility of these works reflects their genesis. In a departure for the Camerata, the orchestra will be supplemented for this work by some young local advanced string-playing students, which will add authenticity to the performance as well as keeping faith with its original format.

The Sibelius Impromptu is a gorgeous late romantic miniature arranged by the composer in 1894 from two of his six Impromptus for piano opus 5.

With ‘Orient and Occident’ we return to the popular composer Arvo Pärt, whose work ‘Fratres’, Camerata performed in 2008. Composed in 2002, "Orient and Occident" lasts only seven minutes, but it is an arrestingly dramatic piece, full of swirling contradictions, climactic rises of pitch and snake-like coiling of lines.

Official Website: http://www.chiltern-camerata.org.uk