Bedford Sinfonia kicks off our 60th Anniversary season with the spectacular opening concert of a series where Bedfordshire Orchestral Society will perform all nine of Beethoven's symphonies. In the same approximate year (1795) that the great Josef Haydn's last symphony was being composed and performed, the first sketches of Beethoven's first symphony appeared. Beethoven's style
The second concert in our 60th Anniversary Beethoven-themed season is 'Radiant and Resolute' - a title that truly encapsulates the three pieces we will be performing! First up is a double bill from two Russian Romantic composers - Borodin's 'Polovtsian Dances' from his opera Prince Igor, and Rachmaninov's 'Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini'. We
Bedford Sinfonia presents a dedication to Beethoven and a contemporary we all know and love - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart first stakes his claim with his Symphony No.35 - known as the 'Haffner Symphony' after the family by whom it was commissioned. Next up is Beethoven's gigantic Violin Concerto, longer than some symphonies, which was
This is it, folks! Bedfordshire Symphony Orchestra takes on one of the most defining pieces of the classical music canon - the almighty 'Beethoven's Fifth'! But before that, we first turn to Finland for Sibelius' 'Karelia Suite', a homage to the titular region's landscape and Finland's national pride. These depictions of nature continue in Beethoven's
The penultimate concert in our 60th Anniversary Season sees Bedford Sinfonia tackle a smorgasbord of scintillating song! Our 'overture' to the concert is, in itself, an overture - to Beethoven's composition for Heinrich Joseph von Collin's 1804 tragedy Coriolan. Beethoven's eighth symphony is next, and is the shortest of the nine, with the composer himself
What better way to commemorate our 60th Anniversary celebrations than with a truly astounding concert featuring two pieces of power and pomp! Shostakovich's grandiose and triumphant 'Festive Overture' leads the way, a celebratory piece commissioned for the 37th anniversary of the October Revolution. 2027 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of the composer around
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