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Sumptuous Strings

Wednesday 15th October 2008 at 7.30pm
Lincoln Drill Hall
Tickets: £11, £9 (£7 students)
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Sumptuous strings... sinfonia ViVA directed by Leader Benedict Holland brings this programme of sheer beauty and elegance to Lincoln Drill Hall.

Hubert Parry is often credited with ushering in a 'renaissance' in English music, with enduring tunes such as Jerusalem and I Was Glad guaranteeing his place in the nation's musical history. The programme opens with no less quintessential Parry: the seven movements of An English Suite – beautiful, joyful, yet in part also contemplative music.

The complexity of Haydn's Violin Concerto in G, composed with Luigi Tomasini, principal violin of Haydn's own orchestra in mind, pays tribute to the virtuosity of the player – and has continued to draw the best from leading violinists down the ages.

Cervante's novel Don Quixote gave rise to two musical interpretations by the composer Telemann. Tonight we hear his first – the Don Quichotte Suite in G major (or to give it its full title, 'Ouverture burlesque sur Don Quichotte'), the movements of which closely follow the novel's structure.

Suk's Serenade is the piece which first brought his name to prominence. Published at the suggestion of Brahms, the optimism of the work is seen by some as atypical of the composer to this point, and may have in part been influenced by his love for Dvorak's daughter Otylka, who Suk married in 1898.

Come and see why audiences at Lincoln look forward so much to sinfonia ViVA concerts!

Supported by Orchestras Live, Arts Council England and Lincoln City Council.