On 30th October, Manchester Camerata performs the world premiere of Laurence Osborn’s Horn Concerto, a piece written especially for horn player Ben Goldscheider (BBC Young Musician 2016 Finalist). The concerto was commissioned by Trinity College Cambridge, where Laurence is Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts.
Here is what Laurence has to say about the work:
“I’ve been wanting to write [this piece] for the last five years, since first meeting Ben Goldscheider back in 2020, and I’ve always known how the first movement was going to start – as a kind of musical knot, made of different military marches at different speeds, which gradually unravels and falls apart.
The second movement is a retelling of the woodland scene in Siegfried, in which the eponymous hero is devoured by a flock of birds before his horn calls can wake the dragon.
The third movement imagines another mononymous hero — Elvis [Presley] — recording the soundtrack Blue Hawaii in the early sixties, while high-altitude nuclear tests are detonated over the Pacific Ocean”..
Read more about the performance here.
