Lucienne Renaudin Vary and Sinfonia Cymru

Lucienne Renaudin Vary and Sinfonia Cymru in South Wales perform works by Ravel, Weill and Gershwin, presented by Linton Stephens. The concert begins with Sinfonia Cymru performing Wagner’s birthday present to his wife Cosima, Siegfried Idyll. Lucienne Renaudin Vary then joins the orchestra for one of Hummel’s most popular works today, his lively Trumpet Concerto. During the interval we hear a Sonata by the harpsichordist, singer and composer Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre, whose musical abilities were once described as supernatural.

Jacquet de La Guerre was a contemporary of François Couperin, and after the interval, Sinfonia Cymru return to perform Ravel’s nod to this French Baroque composer, in Le tombeau de Couperin. Ravel orchestrated four parts of a six movement work for piano he’d composed, each movement dedicated to his friends who had died during the First World War. Lucienne Renaudin Vary then joins the orchestra again, with a selection of music with links to New York and Paris, including music by Ravel, Milhaud, Lowry, Weill and Bechet. The concert finishes with an encore, Gershwin’s lilting I Love you Porgy, from his opera Porgy and Bess.

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Sinfonia Cymru

Hummel: Trumpet Concerto
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, trumpet
Sinfonia Cymru

c. 8.13pm - Interval music
Jacquet de La Guerre: Sonata No 1 in D minor, for violin and continuo
Camerata moderna

c. 8.29pm
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Sinfonia Cymru

Ravel: Pavanne pour une infante défunte, Arr. Bill Elliott
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, trumpet
Sinfonia Cymru

Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toit, Arr. Bill Elliott
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, trumpet
Sinfonia Cymru

Lowry: Shall We Gather at the River? , Arr. Bill Elliott
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, trumpet
Sinfonia Cymru

Weill: Je ne t’aime pas, Arr. Bill Elliott
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, trumpet
Sinfonia Cymru

Bechet: Si tu vois ma mère, Arr. Bill Elliott
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, trumpet
Sinfonia Cymru

Gershwin: I Loves you Porgy (Porgy and Bess), Arr. Bill Elliott
Lucienne Renaudin Vary, trumpet
Sinfonia Cymru

Produced by Luke Whitlock