Orchestral Weekender

• Music Society

The Music Society orchestras and their conductor Daniele Rosina present a weekend of concerts in the Bramall Music Building. The concerts feature popular orchestral works alongside soloists and the world premiere performance of postgraduate composer Oliver Frost’s new orchestral work, drawn onward.

Saturday 19 March, 19:30

Daniele Rosina conductor
Lucy Haggerwood-Bullen violin*

• Mascagni
  Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
• Puccini
  Intermezzo from Suor Angelica
• Bizet
  Selection from Carmen
• Beethoven
  Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61

*Winner of the Music Society's annual Solo Competition

Sunday 20 March, 15:00

Daniele Rosina conductor
Richard Jenkinson cello

• Takemitsu
  Signals from Heaven
• Barber
  Adagio for Strings
  Cello Concerto
• Oliver Frost
  drawn onward (world premiere)
• Mussorgsky
  Pictures at an Exhibition

Philharmonic Orchestra performs Maurice Ravel’s 1922 orchestration of Mussorgsky’s popular suite Pictures at an Exhibition. Based on the paintings of Viktor Hartmann, the orchestral suite is a triumph of colour and texture, evoking scenes of great Russian architecture and folklore. The idea of colour is further explored in two short antiphonal fanfares for brass, Signals from Heaven, by Japanese composers Toru Takemitsu, and in Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. In addition, cellist Richard Jenkinson (CBSO principal cellist and Dante Quartet), joins the Orchestra for a captivating performance of Barber’s Cello Concerto.

Venue: Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building

Tickets (Available via the online shop or on the door):

• Individual concert tickets: £10, £8 concessions, £3 students
• Weekend ticket: £16, £12 concessions, £5 students