**Saturday 14 October**
Saturday 14 October
Pocket Sinfonia have made their name reinterpreting orchestral masterpieces in fresh and dynamic arrangements for four instruments – flute, violin, cello and piano. Already in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, composers such as Hummel and Clementi, were transcribing the orchestral music of Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn for smaller ensembles. Now the Pocket Sinfonia perform some of these earlier arrangements alongside new ones of orchestral works by Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Grieg and Prokofiev which they create and commission themselves.
It's the Pocket Sinfonia’s own arrangements which feature in tonight’s concert. Violinist Eleanor Corr has arranged the overture, nocturne and scherzo from Felix Mendelssohn’s miraculous music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, along with extracts from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet ballet. An arrangement of Fanny Mendelssohn’s Overture in C by Emil Dunscumb, the ensemble’s pianist, completes the programme.
Programme:Fanny Mendelssohn, arr. Duncumb - Overture in C majorFelix Mendelssohn, arr. Corr Pocket Sinfonia - A Midsummer Night’s Dream (suite) – Overture, Nocturne and ScherzoProkofiev, arr. Corr - Romeo and Juliet (suite)
Saturday 14 October: 7.30pm Tickets: £18, £8 (students), FREE (school children)
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