Rochdale Music Society Concert with Elinor Nicholson and the Vista Wind Trio

The Vista Wind Trio: Jennifer Dyson (Flute), Beatrice Hubble (Oboe) and Caroline Waddington (Clarinet) with Harpist Elinor Nicholson

Members of the Vista Wind Trio, Jennifer Dyson (Flute), Beatrice Hubble (Oboe) and Caroline
Waddington (Clarinet) joined forces with Harpist Elinor Nicholson to provide a varied programme of music for Rochdale Music Society’s first of two autumn special concerts to be given in the newly refurbished Bamford Chapel.

Already appreciated as a concert venue with a welcoming environment for music-making, the chapel now provides a more comfortable place for audiences to sit back and enjoy the kind of excellent performances given on this occasion.

All four artistes featured as soloists at some point in the concert, and demonstrated their personal command of their instruments in skilful and refined performance of music from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Together they gave insightful accounts of some works originally written for flute/oboe/clarinet trio, including Malcolm Arnold’s Trio.

They also presented several attractive arrangements of music originally written for other instruments or ensembles, including a Suite of pieces derived from Bernstein’s West Side Story’ and another from Debussy’s ‘Children’s Corner’.

Flute and harp came together in an impressive performance of William Alwyn’s Naiades, a work of great refinement and passion which occasioned a very warm response from the captivated audience. Featured on its own, the harp's wide range of dynamic and expressive possibilities were expertly demonstrated in Elinor Nicholson's performance of music written for her by Sally Beamish.

Rochdale Music Society concerts progamme:

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