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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 15 October 2010 at 7.30 p.m.
Mendelssohn - Overture 'Ruy Blas'
Martinu - Concerto-Rhapsody
Schubert - Symphony No. 9 'Great'
Louise Parker - viola
Andrew Morley - conductor
The first concert of our 2010-11 season begins with Mendelssohn's passionate overture 'Ruy Blas'. Encapsulating the spirit of Victor Hugo's play of the same name (which, incidentally, Mendelssohn hated), it provides a suitably dramatic beginning to the Sinfonia's seventh season!
The concert continues with a concerto that has been held over from last season. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Louise Parker's performance of the Concerto-Rhapsody by Bohuslav Martinu had to be postponed. We are delighted to be able to put this superbly romantic and lyrical (if little-known) work in our opening programme.
Having ended the first concert of last season with a Ninth Symphony (Dvorak's 'New World'), this concert closes with another great Ninth. Indeed, Schubert's Ninth is nicknamed 'the Great C major' (to distinguish it from his 'little' C major symphony - No. 6) and it marked the beginnings of a new 'grand style' in Schubert's output; one which, tragically, he was never able to continue. One of Schubert's best-known and most-loved symphonic works, it will be an awe-inspiring end to our concert, and a great beginning to our new season!
Tickets £10/£8 - available on the door from 7.00 p.m.
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