GO: CLASSICAL: OUTDOOR SEASON BURSTS INTO LIFE.THE FIREWORK season is on us again - no, not Guy Fawkes celebrations, but a string of outdoor summer concerts at some of Warwickshire's most magnificent venues. First to light the blue touch paper are the excellent Warwick Castle concerts. The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is a British orchestra based in Birmingham, England. The orchestra was founded as the City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1920, with Edward Elgar conducting its first concert in September of that year. is again featuring in this two-night event which will be the climax of the Warwick Festival. It happens next weekend and there are still tickets for the Sunday evening if anyone is looking for the ultimate escape from the Euro 2004 final. The conductor is John Wilson, who has come up with a popular programme including Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture, the slow movement from Dvorak's New World Symphony, Vltava from Smetana's Ma Vlast, the Adagietto from Mahler's Fifth Symphony and March to the Scaffold from Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. The finale will be the stirring last movement of Saint Saens' Organ Symphony with a large pipe organ brought in specially for the occasion. The rockets go up at Stoneleigh Abbey on July 10 when the Stratford-based Orchestra of the Swan will be on stage under their conductor David Curtis. The varied programme opens with the first movement of Sibelius's Karelia Suite. Also on the menu - the waltz from Delibes's Coppelia, part of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, Montagues and Capulets from Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lovers die as teenagers. [Br. Lit.: Romeo and Juliet] See : Death, Premature Romeo and Juliet archetypal star-crossed lovers. [Br. Lit. by Prokofiev, a good sprinkling of Viennese favourites and hardy Last Night of the Proms For the BBC concerts, see . The Night of the Proms is a series of concerts held yearly in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France and Spain. The concerts consist of a combination of pop music and popular classical music (often combined) and various well-known musicians and favourites like Rule Britannia and Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March. Charlecote Park is next on the list, with a fireworks concert on July 24 starring the ubiquitous Opera Babes, singers Karen England and Rebecca Knight, with an orchestra called the British Philharmonic. Ragley Hall near Alcester is also going for the tried and tested formula with its Proms Spectacular on August 7. But there are some less predictable selections too from the Manchester-based Performing Arts Symphony Orchestra. The programme includes Berlioz's Le Corsaire, Capriccio Espagnol by Rimsky-Korsakov, the Festival Overture by Shostakovich and, as a finale, the Marche Slave by Tchaikovsky. If you have not ventured to one of these events before, the tradition is to try to outdo your neighbours in terms of exotic food, bubbly and table decoration. The more practically minded concentrate on remembering warm clothes and waterproofs. COVENTRY-born Mark Bebbington is one of a number of pianists taking part in the Chipping Campden festival which starts this weekend. He' is giving a lunchtime recital on Sunday of Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata, the Prelude, Chorale and Fugue fugue (fy  g) [Ital.,=flight], in music, a form of composition in which the basic principle is imitative counterpoint of several voices. by
Cesar Franck, Five Preludes by Debussy and a piece by the little-known
Italian composer Castelnuovo-Tadesco.
The festival highlight is a concert by violinist Tasmin Little and her regular accompanist Martin Roscoe on Thursday. The City of London Chamber Orchestra The London Chamber Orchestra (LCO) is the longest established professional chamber orchestra in the UK. Based in London, LCO has a residency at St John's, Smith Square in Westminster. are performing Haydn and Mozart The composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn were friends. Their relationship is not very well documented, but the evidence that they enjoyed each other's company and greatly respected each other's work is strong. on Tuesday and the Medici Medici, Italian family Medici (mĕ`dĭchē, Ital. mā`dēchē), Italian family that directed the destinies of Florence from the 15th cent. until 1737. String Quartet are playing a programme of Haydn, Bartok and Beethoven on Friday. The concerts take place at St James's Church. Details from 01386 849018. ONE spin-off of the Dvorak centenary is that it has encouraged promoters to programme music by other Czech composers. The Philharmonia Orchestra, under Sir Charles Mackerras, will be performing Janacek's mighty Glagolitic Mass on Monday with an impressive line-up of singers - Christine Brewer, Louise Winter, John Mac Master and Neal Davies - and Birmingham's city organist Thomas Trotter. The concert, the last in this season's Birmingham International Series, also features Dvorak's Carnival Overture and Cello Concerto with Natalie Clein as soloist. CAPTION(S): POPULAR PROGRAMME: Conductor John Wilson |
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