The Hanover Band are joined by Conductor Richard Cooke and Oboist Geoff Coates for a spectacular Bank Holiday Weekend Concert. With works by Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Beethoven, this is an August treat not to be missed!
MENDELSSOHN Hebrides Overture
MOZART Symphony No.32 “Overture in the Italian Style”
MOZART Oboe Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No.3 “Eroica”
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HANOVER (Not Hannover; Germany) In terms of British history the majority of the music we play is from the Hanoverian period. Hanover also refers to Hanover Square in London, where Haydn performed his symphonies and arias in the Salomon Concerts in the 1790’s.
BAND (ref: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians)
‘An instrumental ensemble, larger than a chamber ensemble. Thus the ’24 violins’ of Louis XIV were called ‘la grande bande’ to distinguish them from Lully’s ‘petits violons’, and Charles II’s similar ensemble was known as ‘the King’s Band’. By extension, ‘band’ came to mean an orchestra in colloquial British usage’.
THE HANOVER BAND a period name for a period orchestra.