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
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
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
