MMS Spring Concert 2026

For our Spring concert, we return to St. Matthew’s Community Centre where we’ll explore two of the “little” works of two great symphonists, both written in the 1810s: Schubert’s 6th Symphony (known as the “little” C major, in contrast to the “great” C major symphony of the 9th) and Beethoven’s 8th Symphony, somewhat smaller in scale to the 7th and 9th that came either side of it, and indeed perhaps closer to the 1st, 2nd and 4th symphonies in style. Beethoven fondly referred to it as "my little Symphony in F”.
​Opening our concert, we have Faure’s beautiful Pavane, written in 1887, originally for piano but later orchestrated. Faure described the work as "elegant, assuredly, but not particularly important.” Modern audiences would disagree with this assessment as it is a perennial favourite of orchestras and audiences