16 February 2025

Sinfonia Chamber Players

Richard Gratwick and Hannah Gordon (violins) Tim Espin (viola)
Sam Coe (‘cello) Neil Mantle and Alistair Gurr (horns)

Neil Mantle MBE founded Scottish Sinfonia in 1970 and has remained their conductor ever since. He studied horn at the Royal Academy of Music and subsequently at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and maintained a successful freelance career for many years. For our concert tonight, originally entitled “Neil Mantle and Friends”, Neil is bringing a horn-playing colleague and four string players from Scottish Sinfonia, in a programme that includes Beethoven’s Sextet for Horns and String Quartet Op.81b and Mozart’s ‘Musical Joke’ K522.

Tonight’s programme

Sextet in Eb major for Two Horns and String Quartet, opus 81b     Ludwig van Beethoven
     I. Allegro con brio
   II. Adagio
III. Rondo – Allegro

two movements from
Quintet in F minor, opus 6 “Nitor in Adversum” (I strive in adversity)     Thomas Dunhill
    I. Allegro
   II. Andantino

Quintet in A minor Franz Hoffmann (1920–1945)

I N T E R V A L

Romanze in Ab major (after Mozart) Michael Haydn

Cavatine Theodore Dubois (arr. Neil Mantle)

Ein Musicalische Spass (A Musical Joke) K522     Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
     I. Allegro
    II. Menuetto – Maestoso
   III. Adagio Cantabile
   IV. Presto

CONCERT PROGRAMME AT THIS LINK