330 November 2022 - Gryffe Advertizer

Viennese Christmas Spectacular By
Candlelight
Wednesday 30th November - Doors 6.45pm / Starts 7.30pm
Paisley Abbey, Abbey Close, Paisley PA1 1JG
Tickets from £24 + booking fee
Tchaikovsky’s elegant Nutcracker Suite leads on from Brahms’
serious Hungarian Dance No.5, before Strauss II introduces us to the
boundless exuberance of the Polish March in his Trisch-Trasch Polka.
In the concert’s penultimate work Tchaikovsky transports the evening
to the magical halls of snowy Tsarist Russia with a regal waltz from
his ballet Sleeping Beauty. The evening reaches its climax with the
famous Blue Danube Waltz, not only proving the crowning jewel of a
fabulous night’s worth of music, but the coronation of Johann Strauss
II as the master of the Viennese waltz.
The UK based chamber orchestra, London Concertante, regularly
perform up to and over one hundred concerts per year, making it
the busiest ensemble of its kind in the country. Regularly selling out
venues such as St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Southwark Cathedral, the
ensemble performs in some of the most prestigious venues around
Britain and abroad, with recent tours taking them to USA, Finland,
Germany, Holland, Ireland, Spain and France. With their numerous
recordings reaching great critical acclaim, the ensemble is continually
regarded as one of the finest groups in Europe since their founding
in 1991.
If you don’t consider yourself ‘in the know’ about Mozart, Beethoven,
or Bach, fear not, this is the orchestra for you. The London Concertante
boasts an impressive audience record in which an impressive 50%
of spectators are first time classical concert goers! The London
Concertante has its audience laughing at jokes, gasping at virtuosity,
moved by gorgeous string playing and leaving with a smile on their faces.
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