Online Concert

A first for Bromsgrove Concerts as recital is live streamed

Local classical musicians, father and daughter duo Charlotte and Alastair Moseley gave a one-hour recital on Friday 16 April in Routh Hall at Bromsgrove School. The recital was livestreamed, in the first of what is hoped will be a new format for Bromsgrove Concerts.

The concert ‘Love is in the Air – a selection of romantic music for Spring with the wonderful Moseley Duo’ saw Charlotte performing on violin accompanied by Alastair on piano. The programme included popular works by Elgar, Faure and Mozart and included music by two female composers, Amy Beach and Lili Boulanger.

Charlotte is well known to classical music lovers in Bromsgrove as a talented violinist. Charlotte took her first lesson on violin at the age of five and was hooked! She studied violin at the famous Chethams School of Music in Manchester and went on to graduate from the Royal Northern College of Music. In 2017 Charlotte graduated with a distinction in her Masters degree from the Royal Academy of Music where she was also awarded the prestigious Diploma of the Royal Academy for an outstanding final recital. Locally Charlotte is the leader of the Orchestra of St John where she has delighted audiences in Bromsgrove’s oldest church, and as a professional musician she has performed across the country and internationally.

Charlotte dedicated Mot d’Amour by Edward Elgar to the memory of Bernard Hall-Mancy, past music teacher at Bromsgrove School and avid supporter of local music. Charlotte said that Mr Hall-Mancy had attended whenever she performed in Bromsgrove and had loved the piece when he had heard it on the CD she had recorded in 2018. Mr Hall-Mancy sadly passed away in 2020.

The concert was an experiment for Bromsgrove Concerts, to see if live streaming could be made a permanent feature of concerts going forward, although performers and audiences are both looking forward to returning to venues for live performances in the not too distant future.

Alastair said “There wasn’t an audience present in the hall, so it was a bit of a surreal experience for us, but we were absolutely delighted to perform in what turned out to be a rather emotional recital. I am enormously proud of Charlotte and all she has achieved, and love to accompany her when she plays. All musicians have missed being able to perform to an audience in the last 12 months, so to be able to give a recital from the wonderful Routh Hall added to the emotion of the occasion. We are enormously grateful to the team at Bromsgrove School who worked hard to make the live streamed concert happen, and we hope the audience enjoyed it from their homes!”

Keep an eye on forthcoming concerts in Bromsgrove on the website www.bromsgrove-concerts.org.uk