About Howarth
Howarth of London is a specialist woodwind instrument maker and retailer. Known all over the world as makers of the finest oboes, oboes d’amore and cors anglais, our instruments are made in our dedicated manufacturing workshops in Worthing, West Sussex.
We use high-tech CNC machinery to make precision components for our instruments which are then hand-assembled by highly experienced technicians into our beautiful instruments.
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Upcoming Events
Alexander Glazunov – Saxophone Concerto
May 9th 2024 at 19:00 – 21:10
Pounding timpani, inexorably rising violins and musical tension ratcheting up with unyielding momentum: the opening of Brahms’ first symphony must have been quite the shock for the audience attending its 1876 premiere. Drama is everywhere in this powerful piece that provides emotional stress and release right through to the galloping energy of its exhilarating, visionary, conclusion.
Earlier, superstar Saxophonist Jess Gillam solos in Glazunov’s concerto, a piece that’s full of twists and turns and which showcases the gentle and soulful side of the instrument. Elfrida Andrée’s majestic overture starts the concert.
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Alexander Glazunov – Saxophone Concerto
10/05/2024 7:30 pm
Sage One, Sage Gateshead, St Mary's Square, Gateshead, NE8 2JR
Alexander Glazunov – Saxophone Concerto
May 9th 2024 at 19:30 – 21:40
Pounding timpani, inexorably rising violins and musical tension ratcheting up with unyielding momentum: the opening of Brahms’ first symphony must have been quite the shock for the audience attending its 1876 premiere. Drama is everywhere in this powerful piece that provides emotional stress and release right through to the galloping energy of its exhilarating, visionary, conclusion.
Earlier, superstar Saxophonist Jess Gillam solos in Glazunov’s concerto, a piece that’s full of twists and turns and which showcases the gentle and soulful side of the instrument. Elfrida Andrée’s majestic overture starts the concert.
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Brahms | Fogg | Boulanger | Grant Still
11/05/2024 7:15 pm
Methodist Central Hall, Queen Street, Scarborough, YO11 1HQ
BRAHMS | FOGG | BOULANGER | GRANT STILL
May 11th 2024 at 19:15 – 20:45
Conductor Shaun Matthew
Bassoon Linton Stephens
Brahms – Academic Festival Overture
Fogg – Bassoon Concerto
Boulanger – D’un Soir Triste
Grant Still – Symphony No.4, ‘Autochthonous’ (UK première)
Our concert begins with Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture. Composed in 1880 and dedicated to the University of Breslau, Brahms conjures up less of a sense of the academic student but more of the comradeship in the student world.
We are proud to welcome Linton Stephens to perform the Bassoon Concerto by English composer, Eric Fogg. Written in 1931, it is an exciting, three movement work with the most glorious Chaconne as its 2nd movement. The outer movements display all the fun, cheekiness and virtuosic nature of the bassoon.
We continue with one of Lili Boulanger’s final works, D’un Soir Triste. This short but powerful piece displays the conflict of a terminally ill Lili Boulanger confronting her own mortality.
We close our concert with the UK première of William Grant Still’s Symphony no. 4, ‘Autochthonous’. Still’s original programme note states that the symphony ‘speaks of the fusion of musical cultures in North America.’ Join us for this amazing work, full of melody and the human spirit.
In partnership with Big Ideas By The Sea
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