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SUMMARY:November 2022 Concert
DESCRIPTION:Glazunov Autumn from The Seasons \nTchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty Suite \nProkofiev Cinderella Suite \nOur ballet-inspired Autumn concert opens appropriately with Autumn from Glazunov’s ballet The Seasons. The series of colourful and lively scenes includes the energetic Bacchanale and a luscious Adagio. Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty Suite contains much-loved and tuneful music of great character and introduces us to the familiar fairy tale figures – Princess Aurora\, the Lilac Fairy and wicked fairy Carabosse. Puss in Boots also puts in an appearance and the Suite ends with the famous Waltz. In the Cinderella Suite by Prokofiev\, we hear Cinderella playing with the kitchen cat\, the Ugly Sisters quarrelling and the Fairy Godmother working her magic on the pumpkin and the mice. The final swirling Waltz with the Prince is dramatically cut short as the giant clock strikes twelve!
URL:https://www.bathsymphony.org.uk/event/november-2022-concert/
LOCATION:Wiltshire Music Centre\, Ashley Rd\, Bradford-on-Avon\, BA15 1DZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Previous Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220618T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220618T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T055406
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SUMMARY:June 2022 Concert
DESCRIPTION:Hamilton Harty A Comedy Overture   \nDenis Wright Cornet Concerto \nSoloist: Chris Avison \nHamish MacCunn The Land of the Mountain and the Flood \nElgar Enigma Variations \n  \nWe embark on a musical tour of the British Isles with the lively A Comedy Overture by Irish composer\, Hamilton Harty.  Trumpeter Chris Avison\, originally from Bath\, introduces us to the world of the British brass band\, with the tuneful and virtuosic Cornet Concerto by Denis Wright.  We stride across the heather with Scottish composer Hamish MacCunn to his popular The Land of the Mountain and the Flood.  Elgar’s much loved Enigma Variations needs no introduction and completes the programme. \nOur soloist Chris Avison obtained his Bachelor of Music at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama\, and went on to gain a distinction in his post-graduate Master of Arts degree at the Royal Academy of Music where he was awarded the Diploma of the Royal Academy for outstanding performance in his final recital. In 2018\, Chris was made an Associate of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2019. \nChris is the former Principal Trumpet of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra\, a position he held from September 2013 to October 2021. He performs regularly with many other orchestras throughout the UK\, and has played in several West End productions\, as well as running and being a founding member of Inner City Brass. \nChris is passionate about supporting young musicians and has delivered masterclasses to aspiring performers through Inner City Brass and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet. He has taught across his home county\, Bath and North East Somerset\, as well as at the John Lyon School in Harrow\, St. George’s College in Weybridge and Bristol Cathedral School. He has also played an active role in delivering outreach sessions to inspire school children to take up a musical instrument for the Worshipful Company of Musicians. \n  \n \nChris Avison
URL:https://www.bathsymphony.org.uk/event/june-2022-concert/
LOCATION:Wiltshire Music Centre\, Ashley Rd\, Bradford-on-Avon\, BA15 1DZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Previous Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220312T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220312T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T055406
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SUMMARY:March 2022 Concert
DESCRIPTION:Dvořák Slavonic Dances from Op. 46\nKhachaturian Masquerade Suite\nBorodin Symphony No. 2  \nOur programme is inspired by the spirit of the dance. While Dvořák did not use any actual folk melodies in his Slavonic Dances\, they are characteristic of traditional dance types\, such as the Polka\, full of wit\, energy and beautiful melodies. \nArmenian composer Khachaturian arranged the music he wrote for a play to form the popular Masquerade Suite\, including a swirling Waltz\, energetic Mazurka and a furious Galop. \nOften considered to be his masterpiece\, Borodin’s Symphony No. 2 brims with lively rhythms\, exciting orchestral colour and the exotic melodies of Russian folk music. \nProgramme notes for download and printing can be found here.
URL:https://www.bathsymphony.org.uk/event/march-2022-concert/
LOCATION:Roper Theatre\, West Wing\, Hayesfield School\, Bath\, BA2 3LA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Previous Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211120T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211120T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T055406
CREATED:20210623T110820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211123T071802Z
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SUMMARY:November 2021 Concert
DESCRIPTION:Mozart Overture The Magic Flute \nMozart Arias from Idomeneo\, The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute \nSoloist: Llio Evans\, soprano \nBrahms Symphony No. 3 \nWe are delighted to welcome back award-winning Welsh soprano Llio Evans\, who joins the orchestra for a selection of arias from Mozart’s operas\, including the ever-popular The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute. Brahms completed his third symphony in a mere four months during a holiday on the Rhine\, and it is the most compact and unified of his four symphonies. The all-pervasive melodic fragment  ‘F – A flat – F’ alludes to the composer’s personal motto ‘Frei aber Froh’ – ‘Free but Joyful’ – the appropriate mood for BSO’s return to the concert platform! \n  \nWelsh soprano Llio Evans studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Wales International Academy of Voice. She is a British Youth Opera and Welsh National Youth Opera alumna and a former Alvarez Young Artist at Garsington Opera. \nRecent highlights include Celia Iolanthe (English National Opera); Iris Semele (Garsington Opera); The Little One in the UK premiere of The Golden Dragon (Music Theatre Wales); Zerlina Don Giovanni and Melanto The Return of Ulysses (Longborough Festival Opera); and soprano soloist in Janáček’s The Danube with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. \n  \n\nLlio Evans
URL:https://www.bathsymphony.org.uk/event/november-2021-concert/
LOCATION:Wiltshire Music Centre\, Ashley Rd\, Bradford-on-Avon\, BA15 1DZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Previous Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201114T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201114T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T055406
CREATED:20190516T145456Z
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SUMMARY:November 2020 Concert - Postponed
DESCRIPTION: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 voices into a symphony. His inspirational setting of Schiller’s Ode to Joy\, celebrating the universal brotherhood of man\, remains a beacon of hope in troubled times. \n  \nLiszt was also an innovator and was the first composer to use the term ‘symphonic poem’ to describe a single-movement work linked to some extra-musical idea\, such as a poem or painting. Les Préludes is the best known of Liszt’s thirteen symphonic poems and draws on a poem by Lamartine on the theme of love and war: ‘What is life but a series of preludes to that unknown hymn…?’ \n  \nWe open our programme with Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man.  Composed in 1942 to support the American war effort\, the fanfare does not celebrate any individual hero. Rather\, Copland sees every individual as heroic and celebrates the power found in all of us to change the world.
URL:https://www.bathsymphony.org.uk/event/november-2020-concert/
LOCATION:The Forum\, 1a Forum Buildings\, St James Parade\, Bath\, BA1 1UG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Previous Concert
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210701
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SUMMARY:BSO 2020-21 Concert Season
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URL:https://www.bathsymphony.org.uk/event/11927/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200606T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200606T213000
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SUMMARY:June 2020 Concert - Postponed
DESCRIPTION:‘Across the Pond’\nOur 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 of the McCarthy era.  The scintillating overture\, brimming with excitement and gorgeous melodies\, opens our programme. \nBoth Copland and Gershwin studied in Paris in the 1920s – in Gershwin’s case\, not very successfully\, but the light-hearted An American in Paris was the result\, conjuring up French atmosphere and street sounds with its trio of saxophones and car horns.  His Piano Concerto is a wonderful synthesis of the classical concerto form with jazz style and incorporates cheeky Charleston rhythms\, a smoky Blues trumpet solo and grandiose sweeping melodies. We are delighted to welcome Viv McLean as our soloist for this concerto. \nCopland was commissioned by choreographer Martha Graham to write a ballet with ‘an American theme’.  The ever-popular Appalachian Spring depicts a young couple building their farmhouse in Pennsylvania and features the much-loved Shaker tune\, Simple Gifts. \n  \nOur soloist Viv McLean won First Prize at the 2002 Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona and has performed in all the major venues in the UK\, as well as throughout Europe\, Japan\, Australia and the USA. He has performed concertos with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra\, Philharmonia Orchestra\, London Philharmonic Orchestra\, Halle Orchestra\, English Chamber Orchestra\, BBC Concert Orchestra\, National Symphony Orchestra\, Sinfonia Viva and the Scottish Concert  Orchestra under the baton of such conductors as Wayne Marshall\, Christopher Warren-Green\, Owain Arwell Hughes\, Carl Davis and Marvin Hamlisch. As a keen chamber musician he has collaborated with many groups including the Leopold String Trio\, Ysaye String Quartet\, Ensemble 360 and the Sacconi String Quartet as well as artists such as Natalie Clein\, Daniel Hope\, Guy Johnston and Lawrence Power. Viv has appeared at festivals including the International Beethoven Festival in Bonn\, the Festival des Saintes in France\, Vinterfestspill i Bergstaden in Norway and the Cheltenham International Festival in the UK\, and has recorded for Sony Classical Japan\, Naxos\, Nimbus and RPO Records. Viv has recorded regularly for BBC Radio 3 as well as for radio in Germany\, France\, Australia\, Norway and Poland. \nFor further information\, please visit www.vivmclean.com
URL:https://www.bathsymphony.org.uk/event/june-2020-concert/
LOCATION:Wiltshire Music Centre\, Ashley Rd\, Bradford-on-Avon\, BA15 1DZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Previous Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200307T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200307T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T055406
CREATED:20190402T093158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200309T182628Z
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SUMMARY:March 2020 Concert
DESCRIPTION: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 sings his Prize Song to win the hand of his beloved Eva\, and the cheeky apprentices\, who mock the stuffy town clerk. \nBizet’s Carmen is one of the world’s most popular operas and introduces the ultimate femme fatale.  In the orchestral suite of highlights that include many of Bizet’s best-loved melodies\, we experience romance\, high drama and exotic Spanish colour. \nIt was after seeing a production of Carmen that Tchaikovsky first became obsessed with the idea of Fate controlling destiny.  The Fate motif permeates the Fourth Symphony\, written at a time of great personal crisis.  In this work\, however\, joyful\, dance-like melodies ensure that optimism finally triumphs over gloom.
URL:https://www.bathsymphony.org.uk/event/march-2020-concert/
LOCATION:Roper Theatre\, West Wing\, Hayesfield School\, Bath\, BA2 3LA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Previous Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191124T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191124T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T055406
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SUMMARY:November 2019 Concert
DESCRIPTION: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 challenging concertos of the 20th century.  Mahler’s mighty Fifth Symphony includes the famous Adagietto\, used in the film Death in Venice\, alongside a bleak funeral march\, a manic scherzo and a hymn of hope.  Mahler wrote that a symphony ‘must embrace everything’ and here we run the gamut of emotions from deep tragedy to joyful exuberance. \n  \nOur soloist Maxim Calver made his concerto debut in Symphony Hall\, Birmingham as part of the Grand Final of BBC Young Musician 2018. His performance of Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra\, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and BBC 4\, was praised for its ‘natural ease’ and ‘emotional lyricism’. Earlier in the competition he won the Strings Category Final performing works by Lutoslawski\, Brahms and Stravinsky. \nHighlights this season include a performance of Brahms’ Double Concerto in Cadogan Hall\, London with Tianyou Ma (finalist of the International Menuhin Violin Competition 2018) and recitals throughout the UK and Guernsey. Maxim has also performed at many prestigious venues including Wigmore Hall\, the Royal Festival Hall and BOZAR (Brussels). Festival appearances include the Gstaad Menuhin Festival in Switzerland\, Southwold Arts Festival and the Wimbledon International Festival\, where his performance of Delius’ cello sonata was singled out for its ‘depth of tone and passionate intensity’ (Planet Hugill\, 2014). \nFor further information\, please visit www.maximcalvercello.co.uk
URL:https://www.bathsymphony.org.uk/event/november-2019-concert/
LOCATION:Wiltshire Music Centre\, Ashley Rd\, Bradford-on-Avon\, BA15 1DZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Previous Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190608T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190608T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T055406
CREATED:20190401T101407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190530T124633Z
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SUMMARY:June 2019 Concert
DESCRIPTION: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 welcome Bath-based pianist Nicola Meecham as our soloist. \nNorwegian Johan Halvorsen was a violinist\, conductor and composer of theatre music.  He was a great friend and admirer of Grieg’s and was married to the older composer’s niece.  His music follows the Romantic tradition of Grieg and his orchestral experience allowed him to develop an innovative instrumental style.  He did not write his three symphonies until his retirement – they were composed purely for his own personal pleasure and are firmly rooted in the late 19th century tradition of Brahms.  The lush\, sweeping melodies and colourful orchestration bring to mind the music of Russian composers such as Borodin.  This may well be the first non-professional performance of his Symphony No. 1 in this country and we hope you will agree that Halvorsen deserves to be much better known! \nHaving spent some time in Norway as a young man\, English composer Delius was well acquainted with both Grieg and Halvorsen.  The Walk to the Paradise Garden is taken from his opera A Village Romeo and Juliet.  The Paradise Garden is in fact a pub\, where the lovers meet and the scene is set for the ensuing tragedy.  This entr’acte glows with sumptuous Romantic harmonies and luscious orchestration. \n  \nOur soloist Nicola Meecham has performed internationally\, throughout the UK and at major venues\, including Wigmore Hall\, St John’s Smith Square\, and Queen Elizabeth Hall. She has appeared at prestigious festivals including Exeter\, King’s Lynn and Hebden Bridge and has performed in Holland\, Italy\, Belgium and the Czech Republic. Nicola has recorded two acclaimed CDs for independent record label SOMM\, with her recent CD of piano music by Tchaikovsky gaining outstanding reviews in the international music press. The Nocturne was featured on Spotify’s Classical New Releases playlist and has gained over 60\,000 plays to date. Her previous release of music by Enescu\, Janáček and Kodály received a top recommendation in the American Record Guide. \nNicola is a keen advocate of contemporary music and has given premieres of works by internationally renowned composers\, notably Henyrk Górecki and H K Gruber. In 2017 she curated and performed a recital of 20th and 21st century piano music\, including five world premieres\, entitled Voices of Night and Day\, at The Warehouse\, London. A prizewinner at the Royal Academy of Music\, Nicola has given broadcast recitals for BBC Radio 3 and for Dutch Radio\, and has featured on BBC Two.  She is a tutor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. \nFor further information\, please visit www.nicolameecham.co.uk
URL:https://www.bathsymphony.org.uk/event/june-2019-concert/
LOCATION:Wiltshire Music Centre\, Ashley Rd\, Bradford-on-Avon\, BA15 1DZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Previous Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190309T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190309T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T055406
CREATED:20190508T134037Z
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SUMMARY:March 2019 Concert
DESCRIPTION:Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Festival Overture features tunes based on Russian Orthodox chants\, and the mood ranges from solemnity to exuberant celebration.  \nThe Firebird is one of Stravinsky’s early ballets\, retelling an ancient Russian folk tale in which we meet a villainous ogre\, imprisoned princesses and the magical Firebird.  The gorgeous melodies and colourful orchestration remind us that Stravinsky was one of Rimsky-Korsakov’s pupils.  \nThe Symphonic Dances was Rachmaninov’s final composition\, and his continuing obsession with the Dies Irae chant and Russian church music conveys his sense of impending doom.  The brilliant scoring includes a piano\, alto saxophone and large percussion section.  A succession of lyrical melodies\, a waltz from a haunted ballroom and a whirling witches’ Sabbath lead to the triumphant ending\, in which ‘Death is swallowed up in Victory’.
URL:https://www.bathsymphony.org.uk/event/march-2019-concert/
LOCATION:Roper Theatre\, West Wing\, Hayesfield School\, Bath\, BA2 3LA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Previous Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181202T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181202T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T055406
CREATED:20190508T130557Z
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SUMMARY:December 2018 Concert
DESCRIPTION:‘Winter Wonderland’\nBath Symphony Orchestra presents a programme of winter themed music for all the family. \n Drawing from fairy tale operas\, ballet and film music we will present music portraying\, amongst others\, a wicked witch with a gingerbread house\, a fictitious military officer on a fast winter’s journey with a traditional Russian three-horse sled\, and the most evocative musical Christmas character of them all—the Sugar Plum Fairy! \nAdd in musical evocations of winter landscapes and sleigh rides and we promise you a perfect winter afternoon’s musical entertainment.
URL:https://www.bathsymphony.org.uk/event/december-2018-concert/
LOCATION:Wiltshire Music Centre\, Ashley Rd\, Bradford-on-Avon\, BA15 1DZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Previous Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180609T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180609T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T055406
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SUMMARY:June 2018 Concert
DESCRIPTION: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 forests to the exuberance of village festivals. \nViola player Laura Sinnerton joins the orchestra for Martinů’s melodic Rhapsody Concerto. Martinůe migrated to the USA in 1941 and the many Moravian folk tunes he employs express his longing for his native Czechoslovakia.  \nDvořák’s carefree Eighth Symphony is steeped in the atmosphere of the Czech countryside and features hunting horns\, bird calls and lively folk tunes. Along with his New World Symphony\, it has become one of Dvořák’s most popular works.
URL:https://www.bathsymphony.org.uk/event/june-2018-concert/
LOCATION:Wiltshire Music Centre\, Ashley Rd\, Bradford-on-Avon\, BA15 1DZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Previous Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180303T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180303T213000
DTSTAMP:20260502T055406
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SUMMARY:March 2018 Concert
DESCRIPTION:Our programme explores the expression of contrasting moods. En Saga was Sibelius’ first major tone poem. In spite of its title (‘A Story’) it is an abstract piece depicting the feelings inspired by the Finnish landscape. \nVariations on a Theme by Haydn is also a rather misleading title\, as the St Anthony Chorale tune on which Brahms based the work later turned out not to have been composed by Haydn — but its unique character is the basis for a set of variations exploring a wide variety of moods and colours. \nDanish composer Nielsen’s Second Symphony is subtitled The Four Temperaments and follows the idea of the four humours of Greco-Roman medicine — choleric\, melancholic\, sanguine and phlegmatic\, each of which is distinctively portrayed in music. The symphony was inspired by a comical picture the composer saw in a country pub and it quickly became one of Nielsen’s best-loved orchestral works.
URL:https://www.bathsymphony.org.uk/event/march-2018-concert/
LOCATION:Roper Theatre\, West Wing\, Hayesfield School\, Bath\, BA2 3LA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Previous Concert
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SUMMARY:November 2017 Concert
DESCRIPTION:Bath Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce a very special and exciting concert to mark the beginning of its 70th anniversary season. The orchestra will be joined by the highly acclaimed Bristol Choral Society.  \n Mahler’s Second Symphony is one of the most expansive symphonies ever written\, which will make this concert a spectacular aural and visual experience for all. Mahler demands an orchestra of more than one hundred performers\, two off-stage brass and percussion ensembles\, an organ\, two vocal soloists and a large choir that adds to the musical texture in the final movement. The enormity of the symphony makes it a rarely performed work. \n Written in five movements\, the symphony was influenced by Mahler’s interest in aspects of life and death\, redemption\, renewal and ultimately resurrection seen through an intense musical journey. However\, the work is less religious and more existential in nature than the subtitle might imply. \n As the Orchestra celebrates 70 years of making music to the highest standards\, join us at this rare opportunity to hear this vast and amazing symphony – a performance that is set to be an unmissable and memorable highlight of the musical year in Bath.
URL:https://www.bathsymphony.org.uk/event/november-2017-concert/
LOCATION:The Forum\, 1a Forum Buildings\, St James Parade\, Bath\, BA1 1UG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Previous Concert
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