SunDay Concert

Romantic wind colours

Spotlight on our wind soloists! As well as pieces by renowned composers such as Gabriel Fauré and Claude Debussy, they will perform Cecile Chaminade's proud Concertino, which culminates in a virtuoso cadenza. Alexandre Guilmant, one of the greatest representatives of the French Romantic organ school, composed almost exclusively for his instrument. A rare exception is his beautiful Morceau symphonique for trombone and orchestra. Like Debussy and Fauré, Guilmant wrote his piece for a competition at the Paris Conservatoire. The programme, conducted by our principal horn player, Jean-François Taillard, then takes a detour to the Belgian composer Joseph Jongen, who also worked in Paris, with the Concertino for trumpet, before finally ending with the conciliatory sounds of Richard Wagner's Siegfried Idyll.