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March 2022
Dvořák Slavonic Dances from Op. 46 Khachaturian Masquerade Suite Borodin Symphony No. 2 Our programme is inspired by the spirit of the dance. While Dvořák did not use any actual folk melodies in his Slavonic [...]
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Mozart Overture The Magic Flute Mozart Arias from Idomeneo, The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute Soloist: Llio Evans, soprano Brahms Symphony No. 3 We are delighted to welcome back award-winning Welsh soprano Llio Evans, who joins the [...]
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We celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth by joining forces with Bath Bach Choir and The Handful to perform his mighty Choral Symphony. Ever the musical ground-breaker, Beethoven was the first composer to introduce [...]
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'Across the Pond' Our summer programme explores the musical connections between 20th century New York and Paris. Leonard Bernstein felt that Voltaire’s novella Candide, a satire on the hypocrisy of 18th century French society, found parallels in American society [...]
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Our Spring programme has an operatic theme, opening with the Prelude to Wagner’s only comic opera, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. The Prelude introduces us to the noble Hans Sachs and the guild of master-singers, romantic Walther who [...]
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We are delighted to welcome Maxim Calver (2018 BBC Young Musician finalist) for a performance of Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1. Written for the composer’s friend, Rostropovich, it is one of the most significant and [...]
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The Piano Concerto in A minor was Grieg’s only large-scale orchestral work, but is so well known and loved as to need no introduction and remains one of the most popular piano concertos ever written. We [...]
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Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Festival Overture features tunes based on Russian Orthodox chants, and the mood ranges from solemnity to exuberant celebration. The Firebird is one of Stravinsky’s early ballets, retelling an ancient Russian folk tale in which we meet [...]
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‘Winter Wonderland’ Bath Symphony Orchestra presents a programme of winter themed music for all the family. Drawing from fairy tale operas, ballet and film music we will present music portraying, amongst others, a wicked witch [...]
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Our Czech programme opens with the fourth of Smetana’s cycle of patriotic tone poems, Má Vlast. From Bohemia’s Forests and Meadows conjures up the feelings inspired by the Czech landscape, from the grandeur of great [...]
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