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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
Sunday 30 September 2007 2.45pm
Brighton Dome Concert Hall
Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio Espagnol
Debussy
Rhapsody
Liadov
Kikimora
Milhaud
Scaramouche
Debussy
Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un faune
Stravinsky
The Firebird (1919 Suite)
Barry Wordsworth conductor
John Harle saxophone
The 2007-08 season opens with one of the most exotic and colourful ballets ever written: Stravinsky’s The Firebird. From its tender Lullaby to the powerful, pulse-quickening Infernal Dance it is one of the most spectacular of orchestral showpieces.
John Harle, widely regarded as the greatest classical saxophonist in the country, showcases the instrument’s delicate lyrical side in Debussy’s Rhapsodie and its virtuosity in Milhaud’s Scaramouche.
Three more short pieces by composers with a dramatic flair for orchestral texture frame the programme: Debussy’s sultry Prélude, the dazzling Capriccio Espagnol (by the man who taught orchestration to Stravinsky) and the magical Kikimora (by the composer who should have written The Firebird).
Tickets £7 - £24 (Click here to book online)
Sponsored by D. V. Newbold CBE
1.45pm Pre-concert interview onstage with Barry Wordsworth (Tickets £2.50)
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