{"id":4866,"date":"2019-01-10T14:15:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T14:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=4866"},"modified":"2019-01-10T14:15:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T14:15:09","slug":"brighton-philharmonic-orchestra-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=4866","title":{"rendered":"Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Artistic Administrator Ian Brignall introduces the second half of the Brighton Phil\u2019s season of Sunday afternoon concerts at Brighton Dome:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the first half of this Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra\u2019s 2018\/19 season captivated your musical senses, the next four concerts have got amazing musical surprises and some magnificent music written by some highly gifted composers.<\/p>\n

On Sunday 20th<\/sup> January we welcome back as cellist\/director the brilliant Thomas Carroll. A former pupil of the Menuhin School, Thomas has forged a career as a highly saught-after solo cellist all over the world. For the last few years Thomas has been conducting to great acclaim, and we welcome him back for a concert of Prokofiev\u2019s Classical Symphony<\/em>, Schumann\u2019s Cello Concerto<\/em> and Mendelssohn\u2019s ever-popular Symphony No.3, \u2018the Scottish\u2019<\/em>. Prokofiev wrote the Classical Symphony<\/em> copying the style of Haydn whilst still studying, and decided to test his own composition ability by writing it away from the piano. Schumann wrote his Cello Concerto<\/em> towards the end of his life and though he never heard it performed, it is a hugely virtuosic work that makes huge demands on the cellist. Mendelssohn was, even early on in his career, a hugely talented and very popular composer \u2013 this symphony, his third, doesn\u2019t disappoint; full of orchestral colour it depicts the Scottish highlands perfectly.<\/p>\n

For our second concert of 2019 we welcome back one of our most popular guest conductors, Stephen Bell, on Sunday 10th<\/sup> February. For this concert we head firmly into the realm of the late Romantic composers with Wagner\u2019s atmospheric and hugely moving Prelude and Liebestod<\/em> from his opera Tristan and Isolde<\/em>. We welcome the Welsh soprano Camilla Roberts to sing Richard Strauss\u2019s Four Last Songs<\/em>, four of the most beautiful and heartfelt songs ever written for voice and orchestra. To conclude this concert we change our emotional scene and head to the stunning writing of a very young Russian composer, Reinhold Gli\u00e8re. This first symphony was composed whilst he was still at music college, and shows a young composer with a terrific gift for melody and a mastery of orchestral writing.<\/p>\n

Barry Wordsworth, our Conductor Laureate, returns to conduct our last two concerts in March and we have two totally different programmes to whet the listener\u2019s appetite.<\/p>\n

On Sunday 3rd<\/sup> March we take the theme of travel, holidays and the summer. The Hebrides Overture <\/em>needs no introduction; the sound of the sea and wind is masterfully captured by the young Mendelssohn. The slightly calmer waters of Le Lac Enchant\u00e9<\/em> are painted beautifully by the Russian composer Anatoly Lyadov, before a boisterous and tuneful mid-summer party in Sweden for full orchestra by the great Swedish orchestrator Hugo Alfv\u00e9n. To get to our destinations we find ourselves on the locomotive Pacific 231<\/em> by the Swiss composer Arthur Honegger. In our travels we visit the capital of London in a suite by the British composer Eric Coates, then rest quietly by the Banks of Green Willow<\/em> by George Butterworth. A favourite holiday destination is Italy and our musical travelogue concludes with Tchaikovsky\u2019s fabulous Capriccio Italien <\/em>on the bustling streets of Rome.<\/p>\n

The final concert of our season on Sunday 17th<\/sup> March is gloriously romantic and before one of the most Romantic of all piano concertos (Rachmnaninov\u2019s 3rd<\/sup>) played by the Scottish pianist Steven Osborne, we have a Joyeuse Marche <\/em>and after the interval Hector Berlioz\u2019s epic struggle with life and love \u2013 Symphonie Fantastique<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Four very different but inspiring concerts of brilliant music for a Sunday afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tickets for all concerts are \u00a312.50-\u00a339.50 (50% student\/U18 discount\/children just \u00a31) from Brighton Dome Ticket Office, (01273) 709709, www.brightondome.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Discounted parking (just \u00a36) available at NCP Church Street Car Park between 1-6pm.<\/p>\n

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