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Post-Concert Report

This year's students at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music chosen to entertain us were

        

         Xander Croft            Nadia Plummer      Imogen Parsley                 Alice Roberts             

All (except Alice)  accompanied by David Jones - Piano

All pictures were taken during the concert (by Roger Evans)

PROGRAMME

Xander Croft, Violin (unaccompanied)

Bach: Allamande from Partita No 2 in D Minor

Nadia Plummer, Bassoon

Vivaldi: Concerto for Bassoon in A Minor (3 movements)

Imogen Parsley, Voice

Purcell: Nymphs and Shepherds

Beswick: The Nightingale Bird

Bennett: The Lark

Xander Croft, Violin

Mozart: Violin Concerto No 2 in D Major (first movement)

Nadia Plummer, Voice

Gluck: O del Mio Dolce Ardor

Mozart: Voi che Sapete (from Le Nozze di Figaro)

Alice Roberts, Harp (unaccompanied)

Natra: Sonatina (3 movements)

INTERVAL

Nadia Plummer, Voice

Sullivan: Cheerily Carols the Lark

McDowall: If There are Angels

Xander Croft, Violin

Bloch: Baal Shem (2nd movement)

Once again students from the Junior Royal Northern College of Music provided an enthusiastic audience with an exceptional evening of music making at the February concert. The performers ranged from 14 to 18 years. David Jones provided piano accompaniment where appropriate.

Xander Croft (violin) opened the concert with an Allamande by Bach, returning to give a stunning performance of the first movement from Mozart's second violin concerto. He finished with a highly charge rendition Nigun by Bloch.

Nadia Plummer played Vivaldi's bassoon concerto and Grovlev's Sicilienne to great effect. To our surprise, she also sang arias by Gluck and Mozart and songs by Sullivan and McDowall. She has an astonishing stage presence.

The magical harp. It certainly was, in the hands of Alice Roberts, who entranced the audience with a Sonatina by Natra, Isle of Aigas, arranged by Rachel Hair, and pieces by Britten and Henson-Conant.