Spring concert of the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra, with Alistair Watson as soloist and David Halls conducting.
The Salisbury Symphony Orchestra are back at St Thomas's Church on Saturday 15 May, their Spring Concert. It's the second of two dates they've got lined up for the early part of the year, the first being the New Year Concert on Saturday 16 January.
The May programme opens with The Land of the Mountain and the Flood by Sir Hamish MacCunn, a Scottish tone poem that takes the orchestra through the Highlands. The centrepiece is Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, with Alistair Watson on piano. It's one of Beethoven's most celebrated concertos, and having a soloist on the night means the piano takes the lead for a good chunk of the evening. The second half brings in the English side of things with Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 5, a work that sits comfortably alongside the others in terms of scale.
David Halls is conducting, and Rachel Luton leads the orchestra. Between the Scottish opening, the Beethoven concerto, and the Vaughan Williams symphony, the bill covers three different countries and three distinct styles of orchestral writing in one sitting. It's a broad spread for a single evening, and the concerto gives the night a focal point around the piano.
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The concert starts at 7:30pm at St Thomas's Church, 5 St Thomas's Square, Salisbury SP1 1BA. If you're planning to make it, keep in mind the earlier date too: the New Year Concert on Saturday 16 January, which features Brahms' Tragic Overture and Haydn Variations, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.
