£17 - £26.00, subscriptions, concessions and group rates available.

Friends £3 off

Conductor          André de Ridder
Soloist                 Antje Weithaas (violin)

Mendelssohn     Symphony No.1
Nico Muhly          New 3 minute piece (UK Premiere)
Schoenberg       Chamber Symphony No.1
Mendelssohn     Violin Concerto

Familiar and unfamiliar Mendelssohn frame this programme from Sinfonia Viva. His astonishingly mature 1st Symphony, written at the age of 15, is still too little known. The Violin Concerto (actually his second), on the other hand, has long been a popular favourite. American composer Nico Muhly’s new piece has been commissioned by Sinfonia Viva and is receiving its world premiere. Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony no 1 is an early work that shares something of the same expressive world as the music of Mahler and Richard Strauss - energetic and lyrical by turns.

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£27, £25, £22, £18, group rates available

A host of great Strauss favourites includes Voices of Spring, Emperor Waltz, Radetzky March, Roses From The South, Tritsch Tratsch Polka, The Laughing Song froSong from Die Fledermaus, Anvil Polka and the glorious Blue Danube Waltz.

Daniel Rowland director,

Elena Xanthoudakis soprano,

Johann Strauss Orchestra,

Johann Strauss Dancers in beautiful costumes of the period.

Tickets from £15, concessions and
group rates available

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£2 off until 17 September 08

If the creation of the world was shaped by fire and ice then so it will be for CIRQUE DE GLACE. Striving to achieve a new level of ice show presentation the brilliant Russian Ice Stars combine with the world of cirque in an eclectic mix of spectacle and ice dance which promises to be both heart stopping and jaw dropping.

£17 - £26.00, subscriptions, concessions and group rates available.

Friends £3 off

Conductor           Mark Elder
Soloist                  Alina Pogostkina (violin)

Haydn                   Symphony No. 48, 'Marie Therese'
Sibelius                Violin Concerto
Mendelssohn     Symphony No. 3, 'Scottish'

Haydn’s Symphony no 48 is in his most brilliant ceremonial style, and features some spectacularly high-pitched horn writing. Fast-rising Russian star Alina Pogostkina lives in Germany where she currently studies with Antje Weithaas, the soloist in our January concert! She has made the Sibelius Concerto very much her own, after her winning performance of it at the Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki in 2005. Mendelssohn’s 3rd Symphony was prompted by his visit to Scotland in 1829, and moves between brooding atmosphere and fiery energy.

Existing full season subscribers have until the 27th June to renew their membership. Become a new full season subscriber by purchasing unbooked seats at anytime. Tickets go on general sale from Monday 30th June. Box Office: 01332 255800.