CROWTHORNE Symphony Orchestra’s (CSO) recent Spring Concert sold out weeks in advance.
Tickets for the group’s next event are now on sale, and would-be audience members are advised to book early to secure a seat.
The orchestra’s July concert will begin with Malcolm Arnold’s overture Tam O’Shanter, based on Robert Burns’ poem about a drunken farmer stumbling into all sorts of trouble on his way home.
This will be followed by Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4, when soloist Tom Hicks will be warmly welcomed back to CSO to play this favourite of concert audiences, which has been described as ‘the most poetic of all Beethoven’s concertos’.
In the second half of their programme the musicians will play the huge, romantic, and passionate Symphonie Fantastique .
Here Berlioz’s love-lorn young artist’s imagination (and opium) conjures up a series of escalating dramatic episodes, ending with the witches’ sabbath and the piece’s famous Dies Irae.
To hear CSO’s Summer Concert, people should make their way to All Saints Church, Wokingham, on Saturday, July 4, with the music beginning at 7.30pm.
Prompt concert goers can benefit from a £3 saving, with earlybird adult tickets costing 14 if booked by midnight on Sunday, May 17.
From the next day they will cost £17.
All audience members aged 18 and under enter free of charge.
For information and tickets, visit: crowthorneorchestra.com
