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Friday 15 October 2010
Mendelssohn - Overture 'Ruy Blas'
Martinu - Concerto-Rhapsody
Schubert - Symphony No. 9 'Great'

Friday 19 November 2010
Haydn - Symphony No. 43 'Mercury'
Alan Rawsthorne - Divertimento
Schumann - Symphony No. 2

Friday 17 December 2010
Mendelssohn - Overture 'Hebrides'
Stuart Hancock - Violin Concerto
David Braid - Score for an Imaginary Film
Haydn - Symphony No. 45 'Farewell'

Friday 21 January 2011
Barber - Adagio for Strings
Herrmann - Music from Psycho
Ives - Quarter-Tone Chorale
Benjamin Frankel - Concertante Lirico
Elgar - Introduction and Allegro

Friday 18 February 2011
Herrmann - Aubade
Elena Firsova - Cello Concerto No. 4 (WP)
Mozart - Symphony No. 41 'Jupiter'

Friday 18 March 2011
Schubert - Symphony No. 3
SPS Composition Prize-winner
Sibelius - Symphony No. 3

Friday 8 April 2011
Beethoven - Overture 'Fidelio'
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto
Sibelius - Symphony No. 2

Friday 22 April 2011 (Good Friday)
Bach - St John Passion

Friday 20 May 2011
FILM SPECIAL
Stuart Hancock - 'One Week' (WP)
Stuart Hancock - 'Lucky Star'

Friday 17 June 2011
Mahler - Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
Bruch - Violin Concerto No. 1
Mahler - Symphony No. 4

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Friday 8 April 2011 at 7.30 p.m.

Beethoven - Overture 'Fidelio'
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto
Sibelius - Symphony No. 2

Elona Laurie - violin
Samuel Burstin - conductor

In the first of our April concerts (NB the earlier-than-usual date), we welcome our regular guest conductor, Samuel Burstin, to conduct a programme of all-time favourites. Beginning with Beethoven's fiery and passionate overture to his opera Fidelio, the concert continues with with one of the classic violin concertos. Mendelssohn's violin concerto is so well-known that its radicalism is not often appreciated, but writing a concerto without movement breaks, and including a written-out cadenza rather than relying on the performer's ability to improvise, was highly original in 1845, when the work was first performed. For this performance we welcome Elona Laurie as soloist, a regular performer with the Sinfonia - it will be a performance not to be missed!

In the second half, one of the great Romantic symphonies. Having performed Sibelius's third symphony in our March concert, we now move back in time to his second symphony. Although the soundworld is very obviously that of Sibelius, the symphonic style stills owes a great deal to the examples of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov - the lush orchestration and soaring melodies placing the work firmly in the Romantic tradition.

Tickets £10/£8 - available on the door from 7.00 p.m.