Opening Night Concert: London Mozart Players

Friday 20 June 7.30pm

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Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux
London Mozart Players

Images © Kaupo Kikkas

Jonathan Bloxham, conductor / Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux, violin

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro: Overture
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major
Mozart: Symphony No 41 in C major – ‘Jupiter’

To open our 2025 summer season we welcome back the full forces of our Orchestra-in-Residence, the London Mozart Players, who join with rising-star violinist Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux in Beethoven’s monumental and game-changing violin concerto. Charlotte has been part of Thaxted Festival’s Developing Artists Programme over recent years, and we are delighted to feature her as the soloist in this central and challenging work of the violin repertoire. Mozart’s uplifting overture to The Marriage of Figaro opens the concert, which ends with the joyful ‘Jupiter’– his last, and probably his most popular symphony.

Experience the excitement of a major orchestra and virtuoso soloist in the magnificent acoustics of Thaxted Parish Church, with these popular and accessible works from the classical repertoire. Find out more about Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux here: ycat.co.uk/charlotte-saluste-bridoux

During the festival, members of London Mozart Players will be working with pupils from Thaxted Primary School and other local schools to enable the children to develop and perform their own pieces of music. Thaxted Festival is very grateful for the funding support it has received from a number of sources, including local charities, to support this education programme.

‘Salouste-Bridoux [brings] lyrical flow and tonal beauty to even the most complex passages of multiple-stopping.’ Tim Homfray, The Strad review of Charlotte’s debut solo album, ‘Ostinata’.

This concert is supported by a generous donation from Gareth and Pauline Stainer in memory of John R Stainer OBE, organist and composer, who was Registrar of the Royal College of Music from 1959 to 1976. The concert is produced in association with Orchestras Live.

Venue: Thaxted Parish Church
Tickets: £44*, £40, £34, £26, £16. Age 30 and under: £10; age 18 and under: £5.
*Premium seating in centre front rows.

“[The Tippett Quartet] concert as part of the 2023 Thaxted Festival revealed a group of musicians of profound interpretative depth, and capable of traversing a wide range of repertoire.”
Colin Clarke, Classical Explorer
“A positively life-enhancing performance of Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love in English with reduced ensemble by Wild Arts…”
Colin Clarke, Classical Explorer
“The performance was a joy … and the quartet brought out its sense of both structural and linear perfection.” Holst’s Phantasy Quartet Op 36 performed by the Tippett Quartet.
Colin Clarke, Classical Explorer
“The Tippett Quartet and Emma Abbate have performed Schumann’s Piano Quintet together many times. On this occasion they combined flawless execution with instinctive – and utterly engaging – musicianship.”
Claire Seymour, in Seen and Heard International.
“…this was a wonderfully enjoyable and engaging performance that really punched above its weight. The audience in Thaxted clearly loved it and were fully engaged, whilst this experienced reviewer was carried away as well.”
Wild Art’s production of The Elixir of Love, reviewed by Robert Hugill in Planet Hugill
“2 terrific concerts I heard with London Mozart Players.”
Thaxted Festival concertgoer
“I think Gustav is smiling down to see how his memory and that of his best friend and colleague Ralph Vaughan Williams are honoured by the expertly played pieces they both composed.”
Thaxted Festival concertgoer
“It's always the variety and quality which keeps me coming back.”
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