Friday 16 October 2009
Beethoven - Overture 'Leonore No. 3'
Sibelius - Violin Concerto
Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 'New World'
Friday 20 November 2009
Beethoven - Ecossaise and Military March
Haydn - Symphony No. 100 'Military'
Hummel - Trumpet Concerto
Prokofiev - Symphony No. 1 'Classical'
Friday 18 December 2009
Mozart - Symphony No. 31 'Paris'
Matt Rogers - Horn Concerto
Bizet - Symphony in C
Friday 15 January 2010
Gorecki - Three Pieces in Olden Style
John Woolrich - Ulysses Awakes
Stravinsky - Apollon Musagete
Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings
Friday 26 February 2010
J Strauss - Overture 'Die Fledermaus'
Beethoven - Violin Concerto
Schumann - Symphony No. 4
Friday 19 March 2010
Haydn - Symphony No. 90
Elena Firsova - Autumn Music
Beethoven - Creatures of Prometheus
Good Friday (2 April 2010)
Handel - Messiah
Friday 16 April 2010
Beethoven - Overture 'Zur Namensfeier'
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 4
Matt Rogers - New work
Schubert - Symphony No. 5
Friday 21 May 2010
Stravinsky - Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Chaminade - Concertino
Stravinsky - Danses Concertantes
Sibelius - Symphony No. 6
Friday 18 June 2010
Rossini - Overture 'William Tell'
Matt Rogers - New work
Beethoven - Triple Concerto
Brahms - Symphony No. 4
Friday 16 October 2009 at 7.30 p.m.
Beethoven - Overture 'Leonore No. 3'
Sibelius - Violin Concerto
Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 'New World'
Frida Backman - violin
Andrew Morley - conductor
The first concert of our 2009-10 season kicks off with the immense energy and power of Beethoven's 'Leonore No. 3' overture. Written for Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, it is the perfect launching pad for what promises to be our best season yet!
The concert continues with one of the best-loved and greatest violin concertos, that by Sibelius. Sibelius was himself a violinist, but of not sufficient standard to premiere his own work; and the first performance of the original work was very poorly received. However, the revised version, first performed by Karil Halir with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Richard Strauss, met with much acclaim, and it has since assumed a central place in the repertory.
Our first concert closes with what is probably the best-known Romantic symphony of them all. Written in America in 1892, Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 'From the New World', is full of memorable tunes (in particular, the famous cor anglais melody in the second movement). Interestingly, although written in America, there is no evidence that the music bears any more relation to Native American music or to Negro spirituals, than it does to the folk music of Dvorak's native Bohemia. Whatever Dvorak's inspirations, it is undeniably one of his greatest works and a superb symphony to close the opening concert of the Sinfonia's season.
Tickets £10/£8 - available on the door from 7.00 p.m.
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