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Richard Strauss
and the Cello
An Afternoon
with Alice Neary

Book now for a summer's afternoon concert of cello and piano music focussing on the composer Richard Strauss. 

Alice Neary (cello) Sophia Rahman (piano) will be performing in the Richard Strauss Society Summer Concert.

The audience will be treated to Strauss' Cello Sonata, Op. 6, which is full of wonderful melody, drama and the exuberance of youth.

Irresistible melody also flows in the finale of Don Quixote but this time full of nostalgia and regret as Strauss portrays the hero returning home from his adventures. Drawn back into everyday life, does his imagination leaves him or does his rationality return? In the end a veil lifts and the exquisite cello finale to Strauss's Don Quixote leads this curious gentleman-knight to his final breath.

Sandwiched between are gems by the Vienna Philharmonic's principal cellist from Strauss's time, the Hungarian composer Franz Schmidt.

Directly following the concert, Alice Neary will be in conversation with Richard Strivens about playing Strauss: from his solo writing and the orchestral tone poems to the vast sonic world of Elektra at Covent Garden.