Preview: Adjourned but Still in Session: Concert 20

Flautist Pasha Mansurov makes a very welcome return to Adjourned but Still in Session to bring you a selection of European postcards from the Renaissance, Baroque and Romantic eras of flute music. Presented in this time when holiday travel is impossible, let the music whisk you away to Spain, Germany and Italy.

M. Marais - 'Les Folies d'Espagne'
C.P.E. Bach - Sonata in A minor for Solo Flute, Wq. 132
G. Rabboni - Sonata No. 13 in D Minor for Flute and Piano*

Orpheus’s answer to continuing performance and creativity in the time of Coronavirus, whilst ensuring freelance musicians are supported.

Adjourned but Still in Session is our brand-new platform giving concerts in the time of Coronavirus. We bring you online recitals performed from our homes to you, enabling our freelance musicians to play on, and you to enjoy some beautiful music, providing momentary relief from the current unprecedented situation and supporting your well-being. Principals from the orchestra and guest friends present individual 30-minute performances from their homes. In each recital our musicians will perform repertoire they had been preparing for upcoming performances, as well as explore their creativity, their personal favourites and their unique insights and thoughts on their chosen repertoire.

All income goes direct to supporting and paying the musicians, as is Orpheus Sinfonia's charitable raison d'etre, striving to enable the successful careers of exceptional young musicians. At this incredibly difficult time for the music-industry, determined as we are to be resilient, your support is crucial and truly will make a significant difference.

With the outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic and necessary lockdown, our exceptional freelance musicians find themselves in a desperate situation. All hard-earnt work evaporated overnight, adjourned without any current ability to reschedule. This has left them suddenly, through absolutely no fault of their own, with no income and no work, their livelihoods in grave danger and meaning they have an uncertain foreseeable future ahead.