Summer Concert

The end of year summer concert brought the musical year at King's to a fitting close, and gave an appreciative audience the chance to savour again some of the musical highlights of the last few months.

The string orchestra started proceedings with Palladio by Karl Jenkins, a performance which featured a lovely warm string ensemble sound, and some virtuoso playing by leader Sarah Hill. This was followed by the Flower Duet by Delibes, sung by Emma Butler and Alex Wynn, who blended beautifully together, perfectly matching each other in phrasing.

Sarah Hill was back in action then with Viktoria Thomas in the slow movement from Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola, before the Choir treated us to the Magnificat from Howells' Collegium Regale service, O Magnum Mysterium by Morten Lauridsen, and Balfour Gardiner's Evening Hymn.

The wind band then made its concert debut with The March from The Great Escape, followed by three movements from Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, sung by Alex Wynn and Peter Oakley. Two marimba pieces from Elmley de la Cour included a virtuoso performance of Monti's Czardas, before the orchestra brought the evening to a noisy and thoroughly celebratory conclusion with part of the William Tell Overture and the Radetsky March.

Many thanks to Director of Music Colin Albery and Assistant Director of Music Karen Fergusson for such an enjoyable evening, an evening which continued well into the night with dancing and jazz in the memorial quadrangle.