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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

BARRY WORDSWORTH 60th BIRTHDAY CONCERT

Sunday 24 February 2008 2.45pm
Brighton Dome Concert Hall

Prokofiev
Suite from Romeo and Juliet

Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor

Dvorak
Symphony No.9 in E minor 'From the New World'

Barry Wordsworth conductor
John Lill piano

Principal Conductor of the BPO since 1989, Conductor Laureate of the BBC Concert Orchestra and Music Director of the Royal Ballet, Barry Wordsworth begins his 60th Birthday Concert in Brighton with a hand-picked selection from one of his favourite ballets: Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.

The BPO’s President, John Lill, joins the celebration with that most romantic and iconic of piano concertos: Rachmaninov’s ‘heart on his sleeve’ second.

The concert also rounds off the BPO’s season of symphonies with Dvořák’s last, a marriage of old world symphonic tradition and new world-influenced melodies; looking both forward and back, and gloriously triumphant, no other symphony could be more fitting for such an occasion!

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

5.00pm The Birthday Party: Join Barry Wordsworth, John Lill and the BPO for champagne, canapés and more live music. (Tickets £5. Available only when booking concert tickets.)

1.45pm Pre-concert interview onstage with John Lill (Tickets £2.50)

Click here to download the printed programme for this concert
(available at least 48 hours before the concert)