sinfonia ViVA in Lincoln

Wednesday 24th February 2010 at 7.30pm
Lincoln Drill Hall
Tickets: £12 (£10 concessions / £7 students) & accompanied under 16s free
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• Haydn: Symphony No.76
• Bartók: Rumanian Folk Dances (version for strings only)
• Beethoven: Romance No.2 in F major for Violin and Orchestra, Op 50
• Schubert: Symphony No.5

sinfonia ViVA with Leader Benedict Holland directing from the violin returns to Lincoln Drill Hall with a carefully constructed programme of orchestral delights.

The concert opens with Haydn who wrote his Symphony No.76 in 1782 in preparation for a planned trip to London that never happened; it was over a decade later that he would produce the famous London Symphonies. Perhaps best left to the listener to discern the degree of London-centric feeling to No.76! Bartók's Rumanian Folk Dances, published in 1915, are the product of his travels amongst the native peasant population of the country, where he studied and gathered information on traditional folk songs between 1910 and 1914. His reworking of the six songs in the set is full of emotion and energy. Somewhat dwarfed by Beethoven's longer, more weighty compositions, the Romance No.2 in F major for Violin and Orchestra, Op.50 is nevertheless a charming and melodious piece which has brought it many admirers. And finally, we end in lyrical mood with Schubert's Symphony No.5, written in 1816 when the composer was in his late teens, has become one of his greatest and most popular symphonic works, echoing both his own experimentation of the previous years and also the influence of other composers.

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