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WINTER CONCERT
29th November 2003
St. Paul's Church
Conductor: Ralph Willatt
Leader: Mark Hartt-Palmer

Programme

VERDI
La Forza del Destino

HANDEL
Music for the Royal Fireworks

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Serenade to Music

MOZART
 Don Giovanni - Overture

TCHAIKOWSKY
Suite:"Sleeping Beauty"

REVIEW - Richard Smith
The West Sussex Gazette, 11/12/03

"Fine medley of seasonal fare from  CSO"
Chichester Symphony Orchestra finished their 122^nd year of concerts with a fine medley of seasonal fare. For any musicians or World Cup fans, Verdi’s Forza del Destino opened the programme with a flourish as everyone warmed to this 19^th century melody now famous through its link with lager beer and carnations!

Handel followed more sedately with Music for the Fireworks and here we had a chance to hear the talents of Phillipa Hadley, still at school in Chichester but performing in her orchestral debut with the CSO with confidence and authority on the timpani in this most elegant and regal offering.

For many, the Serenade to Music by Vaughan-Williams was new or newish but the orchestra’s leader Mark Hartt-Palmer and guest harpist, Satu Salo, were much in control of this wonderfully evocative piece of orchestral writing from one of Britains’s finest composers and conductor Ralph Willatt’s choice for the orchestra brought out a display of the players’ skill and sensitivity.

WAGNER
'Mastersingers' Overture

MOZART
Sinfonia Concertante, K.364

DVORAK
Symphony No.8

SPRING CONCERT REVIEW -  Richard Smith
West Sussex Observer (17/04/03)
Chichester Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert
St. Paul's Church

It was a great pleasure to attend this concert, under the supervision of Ralph Willatt in St. Paul's Church, Northgate. The first item, the wonderfully complex Mastersinger's Overture by Wagner saw the orchestra relishing in the complex texture of this Teutonic tour de force, rising to the challenge of this epic model of orchestral polyphony with admirable confidence and expounding the various themes with sensitive interpretation to deliver a most commendable performance. 

When Lilias Lamont and Mark Hartt-Palmer took the stage with Mozart's delightful Sinfonia Concertante for viola, violin and chamber orchestra, we were immediately in the elegance of an early spring evening, whether in Salzburg with the Archbishop or in our own daffodil-decked Chichester.

The two soloists developed the score with a sonority and inventiveness only Mozart could have envisaged. How good to hear a viola player taking equal top billing with the violinist and with an orchestra balance just right to give these two fine soloists the perfect background for their musical magic.
After the interval the audience enjoyed a bohemian treat in the form of Dvorak's Eight Symphony. This programme provided a sumptuous feast of musical drama, passion and serenity.

AUTUMN
CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL CONCERT

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