Unless otherwise stated, all concerts take place at St. John's, Smith Square and are conducted by Russell Keable.
October 2005
Russell Keable: Fanfare
Poul Ruders: Concerto in Pieces
Aulis Sallinen: Symphony no.8
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
November 2005
Peter Nagle: The complete consort dancing together
Tippett: The Rose Lake
Beethoven: Symphony no.3 'Eroica'
March 2006
Edward Longstaff: That Short Thing
Mahler: Symphony No.5
May 2006
David Matthews:February Fanfare
Alwyn: Symphony no. 5
Colin Matthews: Fourth Sonata
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
June 2006
John Woolrich: Fanfare
Britten: Variations & Fugue on a theme of Purcell (The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra)
Hugh Wood: Variations for Orchestra
Elgar: Enigma Variations
"The complete consort dancing together"
Peter Nagle (b. 1970)
The complete consort dancing together (World première)
I'm suspicious of tributes - they always seem to end up sounding more like obituaries, and it occurs to me that dwelling on past glories goes against the spirit of KSO. So I've tried to write something that celebrates and encapsulates the orchestra's ebullience and energy, and rather than marking the end of one half-century, signals the start of the next. If music matters at all, it's because it's about community, bringing people together. It's something KSO does very well, and something worth celebrating.
So, taking T.S. Eliot's advice that "What we call the beginning is often the end / And to make an end is to make a beginning", I hope I've produced something that will help your imaginations bridge the gap between a grey November evening in London and Tippett's glittering Senegalese lake. "The end is where we start from."
Programme note © 2005 by Peter Nagle
Classical Source review
The complete consort dancing together (World première)
I'm suspicious of tributes - they always seem to end up sounding more like obituaries, and it occurs to me that dwelling on past glories goes against the spirit of KSO. So I've tried to write something that celebrates and encapsulates the orchestra's ebullience and energy, and rather than marking the end of one half-century, signals the start of the next. If music matters at all, it's because it's about community, bringing people together. It's something KSO does very well, and something worth celebrating.
So, taking T.S. Eliot's advice that "What we call the beginning is often the end / And to make an end is to make a beginning", I hope I've produced something that will help your imaginations bridge the gap between a grey November evening in London and Tippett's glittering Senegalese lake. "The end is where we start from."
Programme note © 2005 by Peter Nagle
Classical Source review
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