Saturday 4 November 2017, 7.30pm
St Andrew’s Hall,
St Andrew’s Plain, Norwich
Norwich Philharmonic Orchestra
Norwich Philharmonic Chorus
Deborah Miles-Johnson mezzo soprano
Matthew Andrews, David Dunnett conductors
Sibelius Symphony No. 1 in E minor
Holst The Cloud Messenger
Wednesday 8 November 2017, 7.30pm
St Andrew’s Hall, St Andrew’s Plain, Norwich
Britten Sinfonia
Elder conducts Brahms
Finzi The Fall of the Leaf
Mahler arr. Britten What the Wild Flowers tell me
Mahler Rückert-Lieder
Brahms Symphony No. 1
Sir Mark Elder conductor
Elisabeth Kulman mezzo-soprano
Brahms’s First Symphony was first performed with considerably smaller musical forces than we are used to hearing today. Sir Mark Elder conducts Britten Sinfonia in a performance that returns to the spirit of those early concerts and allows the details of Brahms’s extraordinary lyrical masterpiece to shine through.
Pre-concert talk, 6.30pm
Sir Mark Elder discusses tonight’s programme
(free to ticket holders)
Tickets: £8-£34 (£6 students, under 26 and job seekers).