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2015-16 Concert Season
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This season,our 43rd, sees us performing 3 of our 4 programmes in the beautiful surroundings of St Edmund's Church Roundhay, the 4th being held at the Great Hall, Leeds University.
David Greed writes: "I am delighted to announce the return of Ashley Wass. This internationally renowned pianist makes his 4th visit to Sinfonia to play Liszt's 1st Piano Concerto. Another acclaimed soloist making a return visit to play with the orchestra is Rakhi Singh. Currently Associate Leader of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Rakhi joins us to perform the ever-popular Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.
Highlights this season include some Russian classics - and less familiar, but great, works for orchestra: Sibelius's 7th Symphony, Shostakovich's 1st Symphony and Rachmaninov's 'The Isle of the Dead - a composition inspired by the painting of the Swiss artist Arnold Bocklin. We also feature Bariolage by Roger May, a contemporary composer whose music has been played by the Bournemouth Symphony, the Orchestra of Opera North and whose music has also been played at Gala concerts featuring Lesley Garrett. Roger will attend this performance.
Other great pieces written for symphony orchestra appearing in the 2015/16 season are 3 movements from 'Vltala' by Smetana, Copland's 'Billy the Kid' Ballet Suite, Dvorak's Symphonic Variations and the masterpiece and 'tour-de-force' of Benjamin Britten known as 'The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra'. Unusually there will be a narration to accompany this performance.
As ever, Tony Kraus and I are looking forward to seeing you at the concerts."
The brochure for the year can be downloaded from here..
Your ticket price and booking fee inludes a complimentary programme (cost £1) per person for each concert
Saturday 14 November 2015
7.30pm, St Edmunds Church, Roundhay
Rachmaninov - Isle of the Dead
Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 1
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 1
Soloist: Ashley Wass
Conductor: David Greed
Saturday 23 January 2016
7.30pm, St Edmunds Church, Roundhay
Smetana - Ma Vlast: Vysehrad, Vltava, From Bohemia's Woods and Meadows
Copland - Billy the Kid (Suite)
Britten - Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Narrator: Richard Pascoe
Conductor: Anthony Kraus
Saturday 19 March 2016
Venue Change The Grammar School at Leeds
Nielsen - Helios Overture
Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto
Sibelius - Lemminkainen's Return
Sibelius - Symphony No. 7
Soloist: Rakhi Singh
Conductor: David Greed
Saturday 25 June 2016
7.30pm, St Edmunds Church, Roundhay
Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Roger May - Bariolage
Bax - Tintagel
Dvorak - Symphonic Variations
Conductor: Anthony Kraus
Where
Leeds
United Kingdom
Organizer
Sinfonia of Leeds
"The region's finest non-professional
orchestra... one of the most
remarkable in the country".
YORKSHIRE POST
Musical Director
David Greed
Anthony Kraus writes: It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to our 2016-17 concert season, the orchestra's 44th.
Each programme this year features a major symphonic work by some of the greatest exponents of the genre: Mahler, Beethoven, Brahms and Dvořák provide these focal points, and are presented alongside a varied selection of music from Russia, the United States, and Great Britain.
The season opens in November with a family affair - Music Director David Greed directs J S Bach's Double Violin Concerto, with David's two violinist sons Tom and Jack as soloists. This is paired with Mahler's tragic 6th Symphony, considered by many to be his greatest for its equilibrium between form and drama.
January sees us exploring the great Russian storytellers: Glinka and Borodin give us extrovert depictions of folk story and landscape, while the life of a fictitious Russian army officer is vividly brought to life in Prokofiev's entertaining suite.
April's programme allows the orchestra to tackle two of the greatest "warhorses" of the repertoire: Brahms's Symphony No. 1 and Tchaikovsky's Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet. Much more intimate in scale is Benjamin Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, and I am delighted to be able to welcome Yorkshire-born tenor Nicholas Watts and Andrew Littlemore (French horn) to perform this wonderfully evocative song-cycle.
The season closes in a riot of American classics - Gershwin's American in Paris and Copland's Rodeo really give the orchestra a chance to let their hair down!
Being able to present these sorts of large-scale programmes is only possible with the financial support of our donors and patrons, and we are enormously grateful for the continued generous support of Liz and Olaf Arnold, and the Liz and Terry Brammall Foundation.
For the first time we present every concert of the season at St Edmund's Church, Roundhay, and I do hope that you will be able to join us there to enjoy another exciting journey with the Sinfonia of Leeds.
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