Tamsin Waley-Cohen returns as our violin soloist in the second De Montfort Hall Concert of the season the play the highly charged Violin Concerto by Sibelius. Mozart's ever-popular Overture to The Magic Flute commences the proceedings and we turn to Beethoven's ground-breaking third symphony the "Eroica" for our finale.
Join the Bardi Symphony Orchestra and guest vocal soloists at the best seat in the house to hear music and songs from a fabulous selection of Broadway and West End blockbusters including The Phantom of the Opera, South Pacific, Cats, Carousel, Les Misérables, Mack and Mabel, Anything Goes, The King and I, My Fair Lady, West Side Story and of course The Sound of Music!
Three top-flight international soloists join the Orchestra for Beethoven’s joyous and rarely heard Triple Concerto, followed by Richard Strauss’s mighty "Ein Heldenleben" (A Hero’s Life) to bring the Bardi’s season to a dazzling and heroic close.
The Bardi Young Musician 2018 is Trumpeter Evie Dunn.
The concert will be at the newly re-opened Haymarket Theatre in Leicester.
Sunday 8th July 2018 3pm.
The Bardi open their 2018/19 season with a concert of well-known classics including Mendelssohn’s 'Fingal’s Cave' overture and Brahms’ Symphony No.1 in the newly re-opened Haymarket Theatre in Leicester. The principal Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and Horn from the Orchestra are also showcased in Mozart’s sublime Wind Sinfonia Concertante.
To commemorate the centenary of the ending of the Great War, the Bardi are joined by Leicestershire’s three leading Choirs, Choristers from Leicester Cathedral and outstanding soloists in a performance of Benjamin Britten’s powerfully moving War Requiem.
Vienna is celebrated in style by the Bardi in music by Johann Strauss Father and Son, including the Radetsky March and The Blue Danube Waltz. Schubert’s 8th Symphony, his ‘Unfinished’ and the rousing Light Cavalry Overture are also in the programme.
Following the successful collaboration with the Bardi last season in Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird, Dance Activate return in a Ballet Concert which includes the 2nd Act of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker.
Russian-born Pianist Katya Apekisheva makes a welcome return in a performance of Rachmaninov’s famous Paganini Variations while Sibelius’s popular Karelia Suite and Nielsen’s powerful 5th Symphony complete the Bardi’s final De Montfort Hall concert of the season.
The annual Bardi Young Musician concerts series goes from strength to strength. These concerts are intended to encourage emerging and talented young soloists by giving them a platform on which to perform with a full symphony orchestra.
