We have got tickets to the following concerts in 2014/15 for only £5. We usually go for a pizza beforehand. Print off the forms using the links below and take them to registry with your payment.
| Thursday 2nd October | Sibelius – Oceanides
Mozart – Piano Concerto K271 Wigglesworth – Augenlieder Debussy – La mer |
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| A really varied programme from the attractive and accessible Mozart Piano Concerto, through Debussy’s impressionist masterpiece to a glittering work by contemporary composer Ryan Wigglesworth
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| Thursday 4th December | Britten – Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
MacMillan – St Luke Passion |
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| The UK premiere of the British composer James MacMillan’s St Luke Passion. MacMillan’s music is by turns haunting, dramatic and magical, so this setting of the Easter story should be a real treat. Britten’s Serenade is an reflective and beautiful twentieth century classic.
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| Thursday 22nd January | Ravel – Rapsodie Espagnole
Falla – El amor brujo Falla – Nights in the Gardens of Spain Ravel – Bolero |
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| A colourful programme of music inspired by Spain, ending with Ravel’s famous Bolero. Taking the baton is Spanish conductor Josep Pons, who should lend an authentic flavour to the orchestra’s playing.
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| Wednesday 11th February | Shostakovich – Symphony No. 11 (including introductory talk) | 150211 Letter | |
| Shostakovich’s Eleventh Symphony is one of his most accessible, depicting scenes from the Russian revolution in a dramatic, almost filmic way. The music moves between cold menace, brutal drama and lament, and was an immediate success both in the USSR and abroad.
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| Thursday 26th February | Berg – Three Pieces for Orchestra
Mahler – Symphony No. 6 |
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| Mahler’s epic Sixth Symphony is full of dramatic contrast, ending with a brutally tragic fff. Berg’s Three Pieces is much lighter in tone, but no less colourful, ranging from grotesque parody to the extreme chaos of parts of the last movement.
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