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University Symphony Orchestra and Choir
When: Friday 23rd March 2007
Where: St David's Hall Cardiff
An evening of contrasts, from light hearted to life changing, Brahms's overture based on students' songs in the Commersbuch in celebration of his honorary degree from University of Breslau precedes Anton Rubinstein's brilliant and highly influential Fourth Piano Concerto which greatly influenced Tchaikovsky's piano concerto. Finally, Beethoven's sublime Missa Solemnis, one of the landmarks of musical history described as 'a treasure of beauties' by a genius who 'anticipated the centuries'.
Conductor: Timothy Taylor
Christopher Williams - piano
Helen Field - soprano
Kate Woolveridge - contralto
Joseph Cornwell - tenor
Martin Robson - bass
Brahms - Academic Festival Overture
Rubinstein - Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor
Beethoven - Missa Solemnis Op. 123