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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 25 November 2007 2.45pm
Brighton Dome Concert Hall

Beethoven
Symphony No.1 in C

Debussy
Danses Sacree et Profane

Handel
Harp Concerto in B flat

Mozart
Symphony No.40 in G minor

Barry Wordsworth conductor
Emma Granger harp

It may be hard to imagine Beethoven as a young man but his first symphony, written in his twenties, shows his mischievous side, from its opening in the ‘wrong’ key to the finale’s joking scales. Mozart’s fortieth, by contrast, is one of the composer’s most serious – and most famous.

Between these two great symphonies the BPO’s harpist, Emma Granger, takes centre stage. Debussy’s two dances for harp and string orchestra are by turns contemplative (the ‘sacred’) and opulent (the ‘profane’) and Handel’s Concerto marries together baroque ornateness with the natural elegance of the harp.

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

Jointly sponsored by Mr & Mrs Trevor Bolton, Richard Brooker and Brian Chattock

1.45pm Pre-concert interview onstage with members of the BPO (Tickets £2.50)

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