The Wind Quintet
The Wind Quintet
The newly formed wind quintet, consisting of Faye Barrett (flute), Sam Baddeley (clarinet), Matthew Ralph (horn), Alex Hurst (bassoon) and directed by Nicola Bouckley (oboe), has had a successful year, concentrating mainly on music from the Classical period, a time of much chamber music composition. In the St Cecilia Concert in the Christmas term, we gave a very convincing performance of three very contrasting movements of Haydn’s Quintet in D Minor (Op. 42). In the Commemoration Concert, we performed the Divertimento No. 8 in F major by Mozart. This suite contains much variety – a ‘minuet and trio’, an ‘allegro’ and an ‘andante’ – and was played with precision and sensitivity. Not happy to rest on its laurels, the group performed the Mozart and a fun piece, Debussy’s Golliwog’s Cakewalk, in a concert at Temple Balsall Church at the end of the year. We would like to thank Miss Bouckley for her guidance at the Monday lunchtime rehearsals.
Sam Baddeley