sinfonia ViVA with Alexandra Dariescu

Tuesday 24th November 2009 at 7.30pm
Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham
Tickets: £9 to £30
Box Office: 0115 989 5555
Online booking available

Free pre-concert talk at 6.30pm in the auditorium: André de Ridder in conversation.

• Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni
• Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3
• Weir: 'still, glowing' (new commission - world premiere)
• Mendelssohn: Symphony No.4 'Italian'

... followed by AFTER:hours late-night concert: 9.40pm - 10.15pm in the auditorium, conducted by André de Ridder. Free admission to sinfonia ViVA bookers. £3 for non-bookers - tickets available on the door only. Programme as follows:

• Glass: Symphony No.3
• Adams: Shakerloops (3rd movement - Loops and Verses)
• Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - Winter

Alexandra Dariescu (piano) makes her debut performance with the Orchestra as sinfonia ViVA with Principal Conductor André de Ridder bring gorgeous classics and the latest in ViVA's Orchestral Shorts series to Nottingham.

The concert opens with the Overture to Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, which the composer worked with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte - a tale of the adventures of the eponymous young nobleman which received its first performance in Prague in 1787. We move on to Beethoven, who composed the Piano Concerto No.3 at the turn of the 19th century when aged 30 - a piece which is regarded by many as the first to display the characteristics of his subsequent work. Next to the premiere of a brand new Orchestral Short by composer Judith Weir, whose ambient music for small orchestra entitled 'still, glowing', features, in the composer's words, 'quietly unfolding richly textured harmony and radiant embers of drifting sound.' Finally, to the much-travelled Mendelssohn, whose music shows many influences of places he visited. His Symphony No.4 in A major 'Italian' is typical in this respect, written while he was staying in Rome. It was then and remains now one of his most popular works.

And the evening is not over: for those wanting more, there's a special AFTER:hours late-night concert featuring the Orchestra's string section from 9.40pm to 10.15pm!

Supported by sinfonia ViVA and Arts Council England. The AFTER:hours concert is additionally supported by Orchestras Live and Rolls-Royce plc.