Bedfordshire Orchestral Society

Registered Charity Number: 262813

Sat 27 November 2010 - 7.30pm

Bedford Corn Exchange

Soloist Jaroslaw Nadrzycki

Conductor Michael Rose

Tchaikovsky

The Year 1812 Festival Overture

Violin Concerto

Mussorgsky ‘Pictures from an Exhibition’

How else could it start, other than with

Tchaikovsky’s extraordinary 1812

Overture? Full of music from Russian folk

sources (and listen out for the French and

Russian national anthems), it concludes in a

blaze of glory, and the bells and cannon will be there! Then more Tchaikovsky. His ravishing Violin Concerto will be played by Jaroslaw Nadrzycki who thrilled us last season with his performance of the Brahms concerto. We look forward to his return to Bedford with eager anticipation.

Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures from an Exhibition’ takes us on a promenade to view paintings by his artist friend Victor Hartman. He creates some wonderful sound pictures – come and find out how he portrays the Tuileries Gardens, the chicks dancing in their shells, the witch Baba Yaga, and others, both grotesque and noble.

Balcony/Tier £13

Flat £10

Children/Students £3