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sinfonia ViVA in Lincoln

Wednesday 18th Feb 2009 at 7.30pm
Lincoln Drill Hall
Tickets: £11, £9 (£7 students)
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sinfonia ViVA returns to Lincoln with a feast of popular classics. The Orchestra, with Director/Soloist Benedict Holland, is joined by ViVA violinists Nic Fallowfield and Philip Gallaway. Tonight's concert has a strong emphasis on the excellence and beauty of strings.

The nationalistic Edvard Grieg's 1884 Holberg Suite was written as a result of a commission to mark the bicentennial of fellow Norwegian philosopher and writer Ludvig Holberg. In its original form, he scored it for piano duet, but within a year had reworked the composition scoring it for string orchestra. It is this beautiful second incarnation of the work with its stature and elegance which has since become a firm favourite.

Bach's Concerto for Two Violins in D minor (BWV 1043) was composed between 1730-31 and represents one of the finest late Baroque era examples of meticulous interplay between the two instruments.

The virtuosic Malcolm Arnold, whose compositional talent famously and successfully extended into film music over 100 times, also wrote several more traditional classical works intended for the concert hall - among them, the Concerto for 2 Violins and Strings, Op.77.

Schubert wrote the String Quartet No.14 in D minor, 'Death and The Maiden' in 1724, based upon one of the songs he had composed some years earlier. The instrumental version was not published until after his death, and it was a full 70 years after Schubert wrote the original that Mahler produced the orchestral arrangement performed tonight, and which has which become so popular.

Supported by Lincoln Drill Hall, Lincoln City Council, Orchestras Live and Arts Council England