CBSO Winds Play Mozart
26 January 2025 at 15:00
TWO PEARLS OF BEAUTY FOR WIND ENSEMBLE
Anna Clyne: Overflow
Mozart: Gran Partita for 13 Winds
Anna Clyne was inspired by Emily Dickinson’s enigmatic poetry for Overflow in which the poet flirts with the mighty power of the sea. The wind ‘dectet’ portrays both the seabed, and the playful, sometimes sinister, creatures and forces within. Mozart’s Gran Partita is simply sublime – in the 1984 film Amadeus, Salieri is overcome with wonder on hearing it: “This was a music I’d never heard. Filled with such longing…”
Nicholas Daniel – oboe/director