Our concert in Southwell Minster this year will take you to the theatre for an evening of ballet:

Ravel - Mother Goose
Tomasi - Saxophone Concerto
Soloist: Joao Luis Correia
Tchaikovsky - Excerpts from Sleeping Beauty

Enjoy technicolour music from two of classical music’s greatest storytellers in ballet scores based on two much-loved fairytales. 

Ravel originally wrote Ma mère l'Oye as a piano duet which was later orchestrated into a five-piece suite. This form is the most frequently heard today.  Later the same year, he further expanded it into a ballet, separating the five initial pieces with four new interludes and adding two movements at the start.  The full ballet which we will play includes the "Sleeping Beauty Pavane".

Tchaikovsky's enduringly popular ballet also told the tale of Sleeping Beauty and our concert includes various excerpts from the full score, including the Sleeping Beauty Waltz. 

In addition to all that, Portuguese saxophonist, Joao Luis Correia will captivate us with his virtuosity in Tomasi’s colourful saxophone writing.


Joao Luis Correia