January always feels like a very long month, dark nights, and not much in the calendar....so why not treat yourself and your friends to some tickets for Letchworth Sinfonia’s next concert on January 19th? The orchestra will be presenting a programme of great music by Beethoven, Fauré and Brahms in the nice warm surroundings of Letchworth Free Church!
It may be a short piece, but Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture has plenty of drama in it, representing the battle between Coriolanus’s war like tendencies and the pleadings of his mother to desist invading Rome, with tragic consequences.
Conductor Rowan Baker describes the Brahms Serenade as full of youthful optimism, a fantastic variety of moods and flavours over 7 dramatically contrasting movements, containing glimpses of the heavier symphonic works which emerged some 20 years later.
Second violinist Frances Reid says of Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, I hope the audience will be able to tell how much we all enjoy playing the Faure, it’s a stunningly beautiful piece, and we’ve loved getting to know it. Rowan’s description of it says it all – ‘intimate, subtle and perfectly crafted’. We hope you’ll love it too.