Thursday 17 January 2008, 7.30pm
The Classic Buskers
The Classic Buskers (formerly The Cambridge Buskers) feature Michael Copley on more than 40 woodwind instruments, ranging from recorders, flutes, panpipes, crumhorns and ocarinas to a Pico Pipe and a rubber trout, accompanied by Ian Moore on a small but perfectly formed accordion, either pink or yellow.
Their repertoire ranges from Mendelssohn's Violin
Concerto and Haydn's Trumpet Concerto (with a
tiny ocarina taking up the challenge of the solo
part) to Beethoven's 9th (the Choral) and Bizet's
Carmen. Mozart's Queen of the Night and
Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries enable Ian to
display both his wonderful acting, as well as his
more unusual vocal talents.
In addition to Western
musical masterpieces, their repertoire includes
many 
examples of world folk music played on
rare and interesting instruments.
Programme:
Micro Classics - Classical Music
without
the boring bits
| The Blue Danube |
| Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto |
| Mozart's Clarinet Concerto |
| Smetana's Vltava/Moldau |
| The Ride of the Valkyries (in costume) |
| Seasoning from Vivaldi |
| Tchaikovsky's Italian Caprice |
| Haydn's Farewell Symphony, lots of Rossini |
| and a selection of deeply ethnic folk music from very unlikely countries. |
The Classic Buskers acknowledge with gratitude the sponsorship of Hohner for this concert