The Chamber Orchestra performed Mozart’s Requiem in Petersfield on the 17 March 2018 at The Town Hall, Heath Road, Petersfield, Hampshire, GU31 4EA.
You can view details of the festival events by looking at the Petersfield Music Festival’s publicity leaflet.
As part of our education programme, every year we try to introduce the students to what is now called ‘Historically Informed Practice’ – you will hear trumpets and horns being played on natural instruments for example, copies of originals of the time and the timpani being played with wooden sticks rather than the modern felted type whilst all our string players sometimes experiment with baroque bows. Whilst we simply do not have the time to go into it in great detail, we do at least ‘dip our toes’ into areas of bowing and the use of vibrato for example, all with the aim of, not only preparing those going on to further musical study, but to open minds and ears to another new and exciting sound world.
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- Natural trumpets which means no valves