SMETANA String Quartet No 1 in E minor
MALCOLM ARNOLD Phantasy Vita Abundans
Julia Kuhn violin
Kelly McCusker violin
Dan Shilladay viola
Sebastian Comberti cello
Principal Players of
THE HANOVER BAND
Chamber Music at The Savile
Lunchtime chamber music concert in the heart of London
Join principal players of The Hanover Band for a special Lunchtime Concert, performing a programme of Smetana and Arnold.
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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.