Auckland Chamber Orchestra

Sunday July 17th 5.00pm
Raye Freedman Arts Centre

Peter Scholes
Conductor

Claire Scholes
Mezzo soprano

Awaken your mind from its midwinter hibernation in this concert of works to stir the imagination. The vividly programmatic Till Eulenspiegel explosively portrays the story of trickster Merry Andrew, followed by Berio’s beautiful and sensitively coloured arrangements of folk songs from North America to Armenia. Ibert’s Divertissement is an effervescent ensemble showpiece, and the ACO embraces Schoenberg’s full-throttle Chamber Symphony No. 1.

We could do with more humour in our concert programmes. And conductor Peter Scholes seemed very pleased to tell us that the opening work in Auckland Chamber Orchestra's Folk Songs concert on Sunday was a joke on a piece that was a joke in the first place.