CONCERT GIVEN BY ORCHESTRA PRO ANIMA WITH A CHRISTMAS FLAVOUR

Orchestra Pro Anima at Christ Church, Avenue Road, Malvern WR14 3AY
Directed from the violin by Michael Bochmann MBE with Robert Plane (clarinet)

Corelli Concerto Grosso in G minor Op 6 No 8 ‘Christmas Concerto’
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A major K622
INTERVAL
Handel Pastoral Symphony (from Messiah)
Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Op 28 for violin and strings
Borodin Nocturne
Adolphe Adam O Holy Night

Orchestra Pro Anima’s twice-yearly concerts at Christ Church continue to be popular. There are clear references to Christmas in this concert: in Corelli’s most famous work, his colourful and perennially loved ‘Christmas Concerto’; in a most tranquil interlude in Handel’s Messiah; and in an orchestral version of the timeless Christmas carol ‘O Holy Night’.

The celebrated clarinettist Robert Plane joins the Orchestra in the first half in a performance of Mozart’s utterly sublime Clarinet Concerto; Michael Bochmann is the soloist in the second half in Saint-Saëns’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, the former part plaintive, the latter dazzlingly virtuosic; and this will be followed by a string orchestra version of Borodin’s rhapsodic and deeply nostalgic Nocturne.