The Jupiter Ensemble returns to the Festival to celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary with Carl Davis’s much-loved score for the 1995 film of ‘Pride & Prejudice‘. Rossini’s wit and classic style have much in common with Austen. His ‘Thieving Magpie’ overture certainly conjures up the right atmosphere, as does Mendelssohn’s Octet, composed by the sixteen-year-old composer just a few years after Austen’s early death.
The concert also includes a great rarity, ‘Admired Melodies from the May Queen’, which explores the score that Sir William Sterndale Bennett created for the opening of Leeds Town Hall in 1858.
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Programme
Rossini ‘Thieving Magpie’ Overture (arr. S.F. Rimbault)
Bennet ‘Admired Melodies from The May Queen’ (arr. W.H. Callcott)
Davis ‘Pride & Prejudice’ (arr. DON)
Main Theme
Canon Collins and Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Elizabeth and Mr Darcy
Mendelssohn Octet Op 20 (arr. Edwd. Shuttleworth)
Performers
Katy Bircher
Caroline Balding
Andrew Skidmore
David Owen Norris