There will be a FREE 24-hour online stream of percussionist Colin Currie performing with the Northern Chamber Orchestra. This session was recorded live at The Stoller Hall in Manchester on Friday, 17 January 2020 but will be streamed on YouTube and Facebook on Saturday, 16 May 2020 at 7.30pm. The concert was originally streamed exclusively to care homes as part of the NCO’s Mind Music programme, working with people living with dementia; however, the musicians have kindly given permission for the concert to be streamed to the public for 24 hours.
In the session, Colin plays an entertaining work by contemporary Viennese composer Kurt Schwertsik, whose works are characterised by his particular exploration of tonality, musical irony and humour. Colin also partnered NCO’s principal clarinet, Elizabeth Jordan, in the atmospheric Nocturne by Stephen Barlow, with whom the orchestra spent many happy years in the pit at the Buxton Festival, and who conducts the piece during the concert. Also on the programme are Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings, in five movements; the glowing harmonies of Delius’ Two Aquarelles; and the bracing Praeludium from Grieg’s Holberg Suite.
About Northern Chamber Orchestra
The Northern Chamber Orchestra (NCO) has come a long way since it was set up in 1967. It now presents a successful, annual series of eight concerts at the Heritage Centre in Macclesfield, which attracts top-flight soloists. The 2019/20 season features: violinists Chloe Hanslip and Anthony Marwood; pianist Martin James Bartlett; percussionist Colin Currie; and our President, cellist, Raphael Wallfisch. The NCO is ‘Orchestra in Association‘ at The Stoller Hall, Manchester’s newest space for music and performance. Our players also perform annually at Buxton Festival, playing for its main opera productions, and the NCO regularly gives orchestral concerts at St John’s Church in Buxton. Buxton Festival’s ex-Artistic Director and Honorary Patron of the NCO, Stephen Barlow, commented: “…the NCO never ceases to amaze me with its ability to soak up pressure (three operas, always new to them, in varying styles), and deliver outstanding playing with care and love, and who are now…an indispensable part of the Festival.” The Orchestra also performs across the North of England and is regularly included in Orchestras Live programmes across rural areas, including the Lake District. The members of the orchestra (approximately twenty in total) are distinguished chamber musicians who regularly appear as soloists.
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