Birmingham Conservatoire Wind Orchestra
Conductor: Neil Aston
Berlioz Symphonie funèbre et triomphale, Op.15
Messiaen Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
Plus new works by Student Composers Rob Jones & Zachaeus Dawson
We welcome back Neil Aston, a distinguished Conservatoire alumnus, for his first visit to us as a conductor in more than a decade. He brings a programme consisting of two monumental works for wind orchestra by two French giants, Hector Berlioz and Olivier Messiaen. Messaien’s powerful Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum was composed as a commission from the French government in 1961 to commemorate the dead of two world wars. 120 years earlier Berlioz’s Symphonie funèbre et triomphale was also a commission from the French government.
It was originally composed for 200 performers (plus optional chorus!) to commemorate the July revolution. We will hear it this evening with rather more modest numbers, but it will doubtlessly still convey Berlioz’s irrepressible spirit!
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