John Barker - Conductor
A “Voyage Through the Ages” concert showcasing the talents of LGS students both as concerto soloists and as guest members of the Bardi Symphony Orchestra.
To include: Beethoven Egmont overture, Glazunov Saxophone and Mendelssohn Violin concerto movements, Haydn Symphony No.101 2nd movement, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and suites from Star Wars, Psycho and Wicked.
Popular concert hall favourites feature in the Bardi’s second concert of the season. The magical overture to Hansel and Gretel is followed by Tchaikovsky’s powerful Violin Concerto with rising star Natalia Lomeiko as the soloist. Dvorák’s seventh symphony, a work more in the style of Brahms but still featuring the composer’s Bohemian melodies, completes the concert.
Pre-concert talk at 2pm hosted by John Florance
Guest Conductor - Richard Laing
Compère and Narrator - Tom Redmond from BBC Radio 3
Tuba - Stephen Calow
Join the Bardi to learn about the instruments of the Symphony Orchestra, in a feast of popular classical and film music for all the family with Guest Conductor Richard Laing and Tuba soloist Stephen Calow.
The Bardi’s De Montfort Hall season finale sees three works showing different sides of one of England’s greatest composers, Sir Edward Elgar. The first half has the delightful String Serenade contrasting strongly with the passionate and powerful Cello Concerto. The mighty First Symphony brings the concert to a magnificent conclusion with one of Elgar’s most inspired themes.
Bach (orch. Elgar) - Fantasia and Fugue in C minor
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto
Saint-Saëns - Symphony No. 3 "Organ" in C minor
Including Les Misérables, James Bond, Out of Africa, Phantom of the Opera, The Lion King, Pirates of the Caribbean, West Side Story, John Williams favourites and The Sound of Music.
Dukas - The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Poulenc - Les Biches Suite
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
Serenade for Strings
Cello Concerto
Symphony No. 1
with Leicester Philharmonic Choir
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Imogen Holst - What Man is He
Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 1 'A Sea Symphony'
Sibelius - Finlandia
Summerhayes - Violin Concerto 'A Fiddler's Tale'
Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel) - Pictures at an Exhibition
