Masterworks & Master-colours
3:00pm, Sun, 27 Jun 2027
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Production: Masterworks & Master-colours Type of event: Performance Start time: 3:00pm End time: 5:00pm Venue: Albert Hall Conference Centre
North Circus Street
Nottingham
NG1 5AASee map below Ticket pricing/options: Adults/OAPs - £21 for any seats
Children/OAPs - £7 for any seatsTickets: 
Tickets available from NPO members or on the doorDescription: Our final concert of the season takes us on a journey through the rich colours of the orchestra, exploring all the instruments involved and the technical virtuosity of the violin.
Benjamin Britten - Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Benjamin Britten - Violin Concerto
Violin: Zoë Beyers (BBC Philharmonic Orchestra & Britten Sinfonia)
Johannes Brahms - Symphony no 4 in E minor
Benjamin Britten – Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Benjamin Britten began work on The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra as a score for a documentary film. Soon symphony orchestras appropriated it for the concert hall, often adding spoken commentary. The theme that serves as the basis of a series of brilliant and imaginative variations is a stirring dance tune from Abdelazar by Henry Purcell. It is first stated by the full orchestra and then is circulated among the woodwinds, brass, strings, and percussion before returning to the full orchestra again.
Benjamin Britten – Violin Concerto
This masterly work was the first composition Britten completed after arriving in the USA in 1939. It combines virtuosic brilliance with elegiac lyricism, undoubtedly reflecting Britten’s growing concern with the escalation of world hostilities. After a period of relative neglect, the Violin Concerto has enjoyed a notable revival of interest in recent years.
Zoë Beyers - Violin
South-African born Zoë Beyers has established a reputation as one of the finest and most versatile violinists based in the UK, and performs worldwide as soloist, chamber musician, director and orchestral leader. In 2020 she was appointed Leader of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Zoë appears regularly as guest leader of the Hallé, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Symphony and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestras, the CBSO, the Philharmonia, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Orquesta Nacional de España at the invitation of Maestro Juanjo Mena.
Johannes Brahms – Symphony No 4
For his final essay in symphonic form, Brahms produced a monumental work whose first movement grows from the simplest of materials out of which he develops long lines of powerfully emotional, yet unsentimental grandeur. What makes the music so compelling may be the way the longer lines ebb and flow with great urgency and lyrical beauty, while at the same time the contrapuntal complexities lend substance and richness to the texture.
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