With a free pre-concert talk by Paul Harris at 6.30pm Frederick Delius On hearing the first cuckoo in spring Summer night on the river Gustav Holst Country Song Marching Song Malcolm Arnold Clarinet Concerto No. 2, Op. 115 Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 5 in D major Guest conductor: Ian Smith Soloist: Paul Harris, clarinet
Bedfordshire Symphony Orchestra will be performing: Bantock The Sea Reivers Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor Op. 74 ‘Pathétique' Guest conductor: Bjorn Bantock Soloist: Jakob Kullberg, cello This Bedfordshire Symphony Orchestra concert will begin with Granville Bantock’s The Sea Reivers, conducted by the composer’s great-grandson, Bjorn Bantock. The programme
Bedford Choral Society and Bedford Sinfonia will be conducted by Ian Smith in a performance of Handel The King shall Rejoice, Michael Rose Songs of Innocence and Experience, Ireland A Downland Suite and a new piece commissioned by Bedford Choral Society from composer Greg May, titled Carved Anew. (Please note this is a change from
Join Bedfordshire Symphony Orchestra for a programme of well-loved classics: Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain Mendelssohn Overture and incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream Dvořák Symphony No. 9 'From the New World' Conductor: Bjorn Bantock Free tickets for this concert are available for under-18s.
Bedford Sinfonia performs a fascinating programme of works by female composers: Fanny Mendelssohn Overture in C Amy Beach Gaelic Symphony Ethel Symth Overture 'The Wreckers' Florence Price Symphony No.1 Conductor: Ian Smith Free tickets for this concert are available for under-18s.
Bedfordshire Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of conductor Bjorn Bantock, will perform: Glinka Ruslan and Ludmila Overture Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor Brahms Symphony No. 1 Violin soloist: Jakub Jakowicz PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF VENUE FOR THIS CONCERT - the venue is now the Great Hall, Bedford School, De Parys Avenue Free tickets
A celebration of youth, learning and music education. Bedford Sinfonia will be joined by acclaimed soprano Carolyn Sampson and the winners of the Young Composers' Competition, whose pieces will be performed alongside the greats below. Schubert Symphony No. 3 Mozart Exsultate, jubilate Arriaga Symphony in D BOS Young Composers’ Competition winners’ presentation and performance: Cerulean by
Bedfordshire Symphony Orchestra ends the season with a programme of classics: Wagner Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin Beethoven: Triple Concerto for violin, cello and piano Bruckner Symphony No. 3 Conductor: Bjorn Bantock Soloists: Mike Gemmill (violin), Julian Metzger (cello) and Stephen Meakins (piano) This concert is generously supported by Hatters Home & Style, Bedford and
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
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