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Reading Symphony Orchestra spring concert
The Concert Hall, Reading Town Hall, Berkshire RG1 1QH
Saturday 29 March
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Reading Symphony Orchestra spring concert
Conductor: Cathal Garvey
Butterworth - A Shropshire Lad
Beethoven – Piano Concerto No.5 ‘Emperor’ (Soloist: Ariel Lanyi)
Vaughan Williams – Symphony No.3 (A Pastoral Symphony)
Reading Symphony Orchestra is delighted to be returning to the Concert Hall for our spring concert on Saturday 29 March 2025.
First performed in 1913, George Butterworth based A Shropshire Lad on poems by A.E. Housman. The work nostalgically expresses an exiled young man’s thoughts of home, and it is now almost impossible to hear it without thinking of those young men, like Butterworth, who were never to return from World War I.
We’ll then be performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5 ‘Emperor’. Despite its title, the concerto has no association with any emperor, but it marked the start of Beethoven’s middle or “heroic” period where he composed works on a much grander scale than previously. Our soloist for the Beethoven will be piano virtuoso Ariel Lanyi. Prize winner at the 2021 Leeds International Piano Festival and recently made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, Ariel regularly performs internationally, and we are very excited that he’ll be joining us.
The concert will finish with Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No.3 (A Pastoral Symphony). Completed in 1922, Vaughan Williams’ inspiration for the work came during World War I, when he heard a bugler practising and accidentally playing an interval of a seventh instead of an octave. Often thought of as an elegy for those who lost their lives in war, the symphony also evokes thoughts of peace. Join us for this lovely, poignant concert in the beautiful surroundings of the Concert Hall.
Butterworth - A Shropshire Lad
Beethoven – Piano Concerto No.5 ‘Emperor’ (Soloist: Ariel Lanyi)
Vaughan Williams – Symphony No.3 (A Pastoral Symphony)
Reading Symphony Orchestra is delighted to be returning to the Concert Hall for our spring concert on Saturday 29 March 2025.
First performed in 1913, George Butterworth based A Shropshire Lad on poems by A.E. Housman. The work nostalgically expresses an exiled young man’s thoughts of home, and it is now almost impossible to hear it without thinking of those young men, like Butterworth, who were never to return from World War I.
We’ll then be performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5 ‘Emperor’. Despite its title, the concerto has no association with any emperor, but it marked the start of Beethoven’s middle or “heroic” period where he composed works on a much grander scale than previously. Our soloist for the Beethoven will be piano virtuoso Ariel Lanyi. Prize winner at the 2021 Leeds International Piano Festival and recently made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, Ariel regularly performs internationally, and we are very excited that he’ll be joining us.
The concert will finish with Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No.3 (A Pastoral Symphony). Completed in 1922, Vaughan Williams’ inspiration for the work came during World War I, when he heard a bugler practising and accidentally playing an interval of a seventh instead of an octave. Often thought of as an elegy for those who lost their lives in war, the symphony also evokes thoughts of peace. Join us for this lovely, poignant concert in the beautiful surroundings of the Concert Hall.