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.
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 fromQuintet 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