Kate Mosse, international bestselling author and Festival president, will compere.
Smyth – Overture: The Wreckers
Smith – Andante for clarinet and orchestra*
Gipps – Clarinet Concerto* (*soloist: Alex Buckley)
Mackenzie – Britannia: A Nautical Overture op.52
Arnold – Little Suite for orchestra
Wood – Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Elgar – Pomp and Circumstance march number 1
Parry, arranged Elgar – Jerusalem
Chichester Symphony Orchestra will be performing an exciting new format for the summer concert, which combines the best of British female composers in the first half with the familar Last Night of the Proms sequence in the second.
Women composers are at last receiving the attention they deserve and CSO have selected three pieces which show off their romantic output.
Ethyl Smyth wrote a dramatic overture for her opera The Wreckers which vividly depicts the adventures set against the backdrop of the Cornish coast.
Rising clarinet soloist Alex Buckley will then join the orchestra for a pair of solo pieces, which perfectly demonstrate the lyrical and virtuosic abilities of the instrument. In the second half the orchestra brings the party atmosphere of the Royal Albert Hall with attractive character pieces by Mackenzie and Arnold followed by the classic sequence of Elgar, Parry and Henry Wood.
