City of London Sinfonia - Bartok, Mendelssohn, Walton and Haydn February 11, 2010

City of London Sinfonia performs an evening of string orchestral delights with star British soloist Chlöe Hanslip.

Where Bartok's Divertimento, written in the Swiss Alps on the verge of war, has outer movements that bustle with a sunny optimism around a brooding middle movement, Haydn's Symphony No. 91 of 1788 is a veritable tour de force, a work full of warmth and good spirits. With the Violin Concerto by Mendelssohn, rediscovered by Yehudi Menuhin in 1951, and Walton's Two Pieces for Strings from the film score of Olivier's great Henry V.

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