MENDELSSOHN
Overture The Hebrides (‘Fingal’s Cave’) Op.26
SCHUBERT
Konzertstück in D for violin and orchestra D.345
SCHUBERT
Symphony No.2 in B flat
THE HANOVER BAND
Hilary Davan Wetton director
SCHUBERT IN THE CITY: September 2022 – July 2023
The Schubert Symphonies
The Hanover Band performs 9 Symphonies, in 9 Livery Halls, played over 9 months – across The City of London.
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.