After a very successful return to live music making in the town with its April concert at Central Hall, the Wymondham Symphony Orchestra is now preparing a fabulous programme for their summer concert in July.
The orchestra is now back up to full strength with several talented new members and will be “on tour” at the beautiful church of St.Peter Mancroft in Norwich on Saturday 9th July at the earlier than usual time of 7pm. This venue has amazing acoustics and always attracts a large audience, and we plan to fill it with the lush sounds of German Romanticism in this 125th anniversary year of Brahms’s death.
The programme opens with the Tragic Overture – the much darker companion piece to the popular Academic Festival Overture. This is followed by the rarely performed Double Concerto for violin and cello with soloists Juan Gonzalez on violin and Ben Rogerson on cello. It’s said that this piece requires two brilliant and equally matched soloists and we are sure you will marvel at their playing.
The majestic Symphony no 2 in D forms the second half of the programme. These are all wonderful works full of rich romantic themes and it was hardly surprising that Brahms was hailed as Beethoven’s true heir.
The Orchestra is joined by two stunning soloists from the BBC Concert Orchestra. Juan Gonzalez was born in Venezuela, and has had a global career, playing with orchestras there and in Mexico, Germany, and the Britten Sinfonia in the UK. He teaches and coaches and has recordings on Deutsche Grammophon and Sony Classics to his name. With him will be the cellist Ben Rogerson, who after studying at the Royal Academy of Music and in the USA is now much in demand playing with the London Mozart Players and the City of London Sinfonia, when he is not teaching.
Tickets are available online via links on Facebook and our website, and directly at www.trybooking.co.uk/BPGU and will also be available on the door. They are £15, with Friends of the WSO at £13 and Under 18s free.
More details about the orchestra can be found at www.wymondhamsymphonyorchestra.org.uk or on our Facebook page.
