One of the highlights of the season, BSO Chief Conductor Kirill Karabits is joined by BSO Principal Horn, Nicolas Fleury and extraordinary English tenor John Mark Ainsley for Britten’s hauntingly beautiful Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings. Compellingly emotional, it is an insightful and imaginative setting of poems which span five centuries of English verse, united under a loosely connecting theme of evening, the night-time and sleep. The music is immediately gripping, the tenor’s penetrating...
A work dazzling in its ingenuity, technical skill and range of expression Enigma Variations was an immediate popular success and transformed Elgar from a moderately successful provincial composer to a national and international figure. Musically, the original theme is remarkable in that it has the same rhythm whether it is played backwards or forwards and the two halves of the phrase suggest two different keys, one major and one minor which builds much drama into the melody.
Brahms’ concerto stands as one of the largest and most challenging works in the solo violin repertoire. It...
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra brings the best of classical music with spectacular lasers and indoor fireworks to Exeter Great Hall this August.
Mozart The Marriage of Figaro Overture Shostakovich Waltz II from Jazz Suite No.2 Ravel Pavane for a Dead Princess Ravel Bolero Handel Largo from Xerxes Stravinsky The Firebird: Infernal Dance and Finale Wagner Tannhäuser Overture John Williams Memoirs of a Geisha Bernstein West Side Story: Symphonic Dances AUDIENCE CHOICE – see below! Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture
Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite No.2 Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Dvorak: Symphony No.9 "From the New World"
Performers:
Conductor: Carlo Rizzi Soloist: Alexander Gavrylyuk (Piano)
The second suite is a charming collection comprising six pieces from those that Bizet composed for Daudet’s play The Girl from Arles – a tragic story about unrequited love in which the title character never appears.
Paganini’s theme is ripe for development and Rachmaninov fully exploits this in a freely imaginative and rhythmically energetic sequence...
