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FESTIVITIES Concert 2006
TUESDAY 4th  July, 7.30 pm
St. Paul’s Church, Northgate

Programme
MOZART  
Symphony No 40 in G minor, K550

FAURE
Pellas and Melisande Suite, Op. 80

MOZART
Allelulia (Exultate Jubilate) K.165
Soloist: Rebecca Grove

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Violin Concerto in G minor
Op.80
Soloist: MARK HARTT-PALMER

REVIEW  Graham Hewitt
Chichester Observer 06/07/06)
Chichester Symphony Orchestra
St. Paul's Church

CSO confirms status as one of the finest

Judging by their exemplary performance in the Festivities Concert, Chichester Symphony Orchestra must be one of the very best amateur orchestras in Sussex.

The orchestra has certainly benefitted from the direction and enthusiasm of their new conductor, Michael Walsh, with whom they have achieved new and greater heights.

The orchestra undoubtedly excels because of their fine and disciplined strings section, with each sub-section making an impressive contribution.This was confirmed when they immediately established the famous first theme in Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor in a strong and powerful way.

The Chichester Symphony Orchestra gave a highly professional interpretation of Gabriel Fauré's Suite, Pelleas and Melisande, faithfully portraying the torment and anguish of the doomed lovers. The dark mood was only lifted briefly with Gillian Hooker's exquisite flute solo on the Sicilienne movement which won her well justified individual applause.

Soprano Rebecca Grove's bright and joyful singing of Allelulia from Mozart's Exultate Jubilate made this difficult and complex work sound so easy. My only criticism is that her contribution was so short.

The grand scale of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto in G minor was confidently performed by the orchestra and the soloist, Mark Hartt-Palmer. His radiant performance was brimming with intensity and drama. His playing demonstrated enormous vitality of sound and emotion.

SPRING CONCERT
Saturday 1st April, 2006 at 7.30pm
St. Paul's Church, Northgate 

Programme
BIZET  
 _{L'Arlésienne - Suites 1 & 2}

DEBUSSY  
_{Preludes
Bruyeres (The Heather)
La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin 
(Girl with the Flaxen Hair)}

MOZART  
_{Overture  "Die Zauberflöte"
(The Magic Flute)}

SIBELIUS  
_{Karelia Suite, Op.11}

VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS 
_{English Folk Song Suite}

Tickets: £9  UNRESERVED SEATING
Concessions:  £7 (Senior Citizens, Students)   £3 (Under16s)     
Available from Bastow's Classics, 50a North Street, Chichester
and on the door

Chichester  Cathedral
Lunchtime Concert
TUESDAY 24th October, 1.10pm

Programme
Mozart    Marriage of Figaro Overture  
  
Finzi   God Is Gone Up   
(St. Richard Singers and  Organ)

Mendelssohn     Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture        

Beethoven   Choral  Fantasia
Piano Soloist: Christopher Redman
        
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