"The Four Seasons" - Vivaldi
Especially arranged for Cuillin Sound by our very own Laurence Perkins.
Utilising not only the four main instruments, but also alto flute, piccolo, oboe D'Amore, Cor Anglais, bass clarinet and E-Flat clarinet, our "Four Seasons" programmes offers a fascinating and varied sound world presenting Vivaldi's concertos in a brilliant new way, so that you experience them as his audience would have - exciting, surprising, new. The work is augmented by projected photos by acclaimed Scottish photographer Mike Bell.
The concertos are accompanied by solo pieces including:
Peter Maxwell Davies: First grace of light
Honegger: Danse de la Chévre
Luciano Berio: Lied
David Bedford: Dreams of Stac Pollaidh
Repertoire
The Four Seasons
Celtic Knotwork
A celebration of music from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and other Celtic lands:
‘Da Day Dawn’ - two traditional Shetland melodies
Eddie McGuire ‘Winds at Sea’
Traditional Welsh folk songs
James McMillan: ‘From Galloway’ for solo clarinet
Thomas Erskine: Overture in Three Movements
Eddie McGuire ‘Celtic Knotwork’
Melinda Maxwell: ‘Pibroch’ for solo oboe
'Heart of the Hebrides’ - music by Rebecca Mackay arr. Perkins, with projected photos by Mike Bell
‘From the Western Isles’ - traditional Hebridean melodies, arr. Perkins
Dreaming Spires
An evocative celebration of English music including;
Malcolm Arnold: Divertimento for Flute, oboe and clarinet
Frank Bridge: Divertimento
Richard Rodney Bennett: Travel Notes (fl, ob, cl, bn)
Further Repertoire includes:
Beethoven: Variations
Ibert: Cinq Pièces en trio
McGuire, Eddie: Winds at Sea
Milhaud: Suite d'aprés Corrette
Mozart: Divertimenti
Poulenc: Sextet (fl, ob, cl, bn, hn, pno)
Stravinsky: Pastorale
Tschemberdschi, N.: Concertino
Villa Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras
Viennese Whirls
Keep the sparkle going in the new year with music from old Vienna!
The programme includes well-known classics by
Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Mahler, the Strauss family and Franz Lehar
With guest vocalist.
(Available from Winter 2020)
Strictly Woodwind
Dance music including
The Spanish Habañera
Greek island dances
Cuban Mambo
‘La Follia’ from Italy
South American tango
Celtic folk dances
Dances from Eastern Europe
Jazz dance
(Available from Summer 2020)