- Saturday 13thMay 2023 7.30pm
- Strode Theatre, Street
- Hitoshi Suzuki – Conductor
- Tickets: £15 full, £14 concession, £3 under 18
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The Mid-Somerset Orchestra continues its 50th Anniversary season with a performance of romantic music from England, Germany and Russia.
The concert opens with the Tragic Overture by Brahms. Composed in 1880, this is a dramatic and turbulent work in symphonic style. A seasonal change of mood follows, with the short tone-poem On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring (1912) by Yorkshire-born composer Frederick Delius. The first half of the concert concludes with Elgar’s Three Bavarian Dances (1887), inspired by the composer’s holiday experiences in the Bavarian Alps.
In the second half of the concert, the orchestra will perform Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony (1878). Famous for its dramatic opening “Fate” fanfare, the beautifully melancholic oboe solo in the second movement, the pizzicato scherzo and the energetic Russian folk tunes of the finale, it is little wonder that this has become one of the most popular symphonies in the romantic repertoire.
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