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Season Introduction

Season Features

2007 concerts

Sunday 30 September
2.45pm: The Firebird

Sunday 28 October
2.45pm: Beethoven IV

Saturday 10 November
7.30pm: Beethoven III 'Eroica'

Sunday 25 November
2.45pm: Beethoven I

Sunday 9 December
2.45pm: Beethoven II

Monday 31 December
2.45pm: New Year's Eve Viennese Concert


2008 concerts

Sunday 13 January
2.45pm: Brahms & Dvorak

Friday 18 January
7.30pm: Petrushka

Sunday 27 January
2.45pm: Schubert & Tchaikovsky

Sunday 10 February
2.45pm: Brahms & Sibelius

Sunday 24 February
2.45pm: Barry Wordsworth 60th Birthday Concert

Sunday 9 March
2.45pm: The Planets

THE BEETHOVEN SYMPHONIES: I - IV

Sunday 9 December 2007 2.45pm
Brighton Dome Concert Hall

Walton (after Bach)
Suite from The Wise Virgins

Hummel
Trumpet Concerto

Butler
Fin de Siècle

Beethoven
Symphony No.2 in D

Barry Wordsworth conductor
Alison Balsom trumpet

2006 Classical Brit Award winner, Alison Balsom returns to the BPO with a virtuosic concerto by one of Beethoven’s rivals. After her dazzling performance of Haydn’s Concerto with the BPO in 2005 this is sure to be another season highlight.

In The Wise Virgins Walton takes the music of Bach and gives it the full orchestral treatment, including a magically delicate version of the much-loved ‘Sheep may safely graze’, and in Fin de Siècle the BPO’s ‘Composer in Focus’ offers a ‘quiet remembrance of things past’ in a short piece filled with beauty and lyricism.

Sitting between the lightweight first and the grandiose third, Beethoven’s elegant second symphony is an oft-neglected gem. Critics at its first performance hailed it as ‘a singular, colossal work’ and ‘completely extraordinary’; Berlioz simply called it ‘a masterpiece’.

Tickets £7 - £24 (Click here to book online)

1.45pm Pre-concert interview onstage with Alison Balsom (Tickets £2.50)

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