19th May 2018 | 19:30De Montfort Hall, Leicester, UK
With the Leicester Symphony Orchestra & John Andrews (conductor)
The Leicester Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1922 by Dr (later Sir) Malcolm Sargent, then a local parish organist and chorus master. The orchestra continues the Sargent tradition of recruiting talented local players and bringing to Leicester soloists of international calibre and fame, to give the people of Leicester symphonic music of the highest possible standard.
Programme
Shostakovich
Festive Overture in A, Op. 96
Mussorgsky
Night on a Bare Mountain
Medtner
Concerto No. 3 in E minor, Op. 60 ‘Ballade’
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64