Saturday 26 November 2016 marks, to the day, the 30th anniversary of the first ever Bardi concert. In celebration the orchestra will be performing one of the great romantic symphonies, Rachmaninov’s 2nd, and Beethoven’s 4th Piano concerto with renowned soloist and great friend of the Bardi, Nikolai Demidenko. Wagner's overture to Die Meistersinger opens the ... Read more
Watch the classic Charlie Chaplin silent movie City Lights and hear the original soundtrack played live in De montfort Hall by the Bardi Symphony Orchestra. Claus Efland conductor Chaplin - City Lights Pre-concert talk hosted by John Florance with Claus Efland at 2pm
A stunning concert of Russian classics including the ever-popular 2nd Piano Concerto by Rachmaninov played by Katya Apekisheva and a complete performance of The Firebird ballet by Stravinsky with dancers from Dance Activate and choregraphy by Graham Fletcher. Claus Efland conductorKatya Apekisheva pianoDancers from Dance ActivateGraham Fletcher choreographer Tchaikovsky - Waltz and Polonaise from Eugene OneginRachmaninov - Piano ... Read more
A summer concert with popular music from the concert hall, opera house, the big screen and ending with the 1812 Overture and live cannon effects! A concert not to be missed. Claus Efland conductor Popular music from the concert hall, opera house and the big screen Pre-concert talk hosted by John Florance with Claus Efland ... Read more
This is the Bardi's third concert at Leicester Grammar School as part of the Orchestra's unique association with the school. Head of Music David Whittle will be Guest Conductor in a performance of the Symphony in D minor by Cesar Franck and as a contrast, the suite from Bernstein's West Side Story. As in previous Bardi/LGS concerts, students from the school will be performing concerto movements and short solo pieces with the Orchestra.
The first De Montfort Hall concert of the new Bardi season "Life, Love and Nature" will see the welcome return of BBC Young Musician Finalist Isata Kanneh-Mason as our soloist to play Schumann's romantic Piano Concerto. Dvorák's Carnaval Overture will give a lively start the concert and the evocative Symphony No.5 by Vaughan Williams a contrast in the second half. Although completed in 1943 in the midst of the Second World War, much of the music of the symphony looks back to the composer's earlier style of the Tallis Fantasia.
Leicestershire Chorale are celebrating their 40th Anniversary with a performance of the Verdi Requiem and the Coronation Te Deum by William Walton at De Montfort Hall. Chorale Director Tom Williams will be conducting the Verdi and Guest Conductor Paul McCreesh the Walton.
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.
