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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 17 December 2010 at 7.30 p.m.

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

Paul Barrett - violin
Andrew Morley - conductor

We mark the end of 2010 with a first chance to hear the music of our Composer in Residence, Stuart Hancock. Unashamedly Romantic in style, his virtuosic Violin Concerto will be performed by its dedicatee (and frequent Sinfonia player), Paul Barrett.

We also include a fascinating work by a young composer currently making a big name for himself. David Braid's Score for an Imaginany Film is, in the composer's own words, 'a work that stands alone, not serving another art form - but with the hope that it will bring one's own personal film into existence instead'.

Having opened with one of the best-known Romantic overtures, we are letting most of the players (and the conductor!) off early for Christmas, with Haydn's famous 'Farewell' Symphony. Having not been granted a holiday for some time, Haydn brought the point home forcefully to his employer, Prince Esterhazy, by gradually whittling the orchestra down during the last movement of the work, until just two players are left on stage.

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