A concert given on Saturday at the Fairfield Hall, Croydon, featuring the London Mozart Players' charismatic principal guest conductor James Galway, who both conducts the orchestra and appears as a soloist in tonight's programme. As well as performing one of Mozart's flute concertos, a beautifully operatic work which utterly belies the composer's insistence that he disliked writing for the instrument, Galway is joined by his wife Jeanne for a performance of Cimarosa's concerto for two flutes. In addition to playing regularly with her husband in recitals and concert tours, Jeanne Galway also performs as a soloist internationally and has a flourishing career as a chamber musician. The concert begins with Schubert's Symphony No 5 in B flat major and also features one of Mozart's last great symphonies: the brooding and dramatic Symphony No 40 in G minor.
Jeanne Galway (flute), London Mozart Players, director James Galway (flute)
Schubert Symphony No 5 in B flat
Cimarosa Concerto in G for two flutes and strings
Mozart flute Concerto in D, K314
Mozart Symphony No 40 in G minor, K550