WHAT'S ON WITH
THE BRIGANTES
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Independence Day | America
Saturday, 20 June 2026, 7.30pm Sheffield Cathedral This season we're taking our audience to six geographical hotspots for classical music: France, the Nordics, Russia, Germany, England, and America! Why not guarantee your seat at every concert and save 20% on the whole lot by buying a season ticket here! We drop in 'over the pond' for our last flight to explore the bold, diverse soundscape of American music. From the brilliance of Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F, a dazzling fusion of classical form and big-city energy, to the rustic charm and infectious energy of Copland’s Rodeo, this programme captures the essence of a nation on the move. |
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Variations
Friday, 09 October 2026 Sheffield Cathedral Welcome to the 2026/2027 season of The Brigantes Orchestra! Step into a musical time machine and explore how great composers have shaped the sounds we hear today. Each concert in our new season begins in a different year, then travels across the centuries to reveal how familiar ideas - beautiful melodies, vivid storytelling, nature, memory and national character - have been reimagined again and again. Why not guarantee your seat at every concert and save 20% on the whole lot by buying a season ticket here! Our journey begins in 1792 with Haydn's famous Surprise Symphony and a musical idea everyone can follow: take a tune and transform it! Four composers show how the same principal of variation can sound witty, lyrical, virtuosic or brilliantly modern. We're thrilled to welcome back Tim Horton after his wonderful performance of Grieg last season! |
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Bach to Britten
Friday, 27 November 2026 Sheffield Cathedral Welcome to the 2026/2027 season of The Brigantes Orchestra! Step into a musical time machine and explore how great composers have shaped the sounds we hear today. Each concert in our new season begins in a different year, then travels across the centuries to reveal how familiar ideas - beautiful melodies, vivid storytelling, nature, memory and national character - have been reimagined again and again. Why not guarantee your seat at every concert and save 20% on the whole lot by buying a season ticket here! We leap to 1932 with Britten's sparkling Sinfonietta before tracing its musical family tree back to Bach and forward to Stravinsky. This programme celebrates music built on conversation - solo instruments stepping forward, weaving together and passing ideas between then - showing how composers across three hundred years kept rediscovering the joy of smaller, more intimate orchestral writing. |
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Spanish Flair
Friday, 29 January 2027 Sheffield Cathedral Welcome to the 2026/2027 season of The Brigantes Orchestra! Step into a musical time machine and explore how great composers have shaped the sounds we hear today. Each concert in our new season begins in a different year, then travels across the centuries to reveal how familiar ideas - beautiful melodies, vivid storytelling, nature, memory and national character - have been reimagined again and again. Why not guarantee your seat at every concert and save 20% on the whole lot by buying a season ticket here! Our next stop is 1887, where Rimsky-Korsakov paints a dazzling musical picture of Spain. From there, Spanish rhythms and colour inspire very different responses - from Prokofiev's expressive violin writing to the vibrant storytelling of Falla's Three-Cornered Hat. It's a programme full of energy, atmosphere, (castanets), and unmistakable character! |
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Pastoral Landscapes | Classical Sheffield Festival
Saturday, 12 March 2027, 7.30pm Sheffield Cathedral Welcome to the 2026/2027 season of The Brigantes Orchestra! Step into a musical time machine and explore how great composers have shaped the sounds we hear today. Each concert in our new season begins in a different year, then travels across the centuries to reveal how familiar ideas - beautiful melodies, vivid storytelling, nature, memory and national character - have been reimagined again and again. Why not guarantee your seat at every concert and save 20% on the whole lot by buying a season ticket here! Arriving in 1894, we step into Debussy's shimmering world of sound and atmosphere. The journey continues with Vaughan Williams' and Beethoven - each composer inspired by the countryside, birdsong and open landscapes. All captured in their own distinctive way. This concert is part of the Classical Sheffield Festival 2027. |
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War and Renewal
Friday, 07 May 2027, 7.30pm Sheffield Cathedral Welcome to the 2026/2027 season of The Brigantes Orchestra! Step into a musical time machine and explore how great composers have shaped the sounds we hear today. Each concert in our new season begins in a different year, then travels across the centuries to reveal how familiar ideas - beautiful melodies, vivid storytelling, nature, memory and national character - have been reimagined again and again. Why not guarantee your seat at every concert and save 20% on the whole lot by buying a season ticket here! Arvo Pärt's haunting tribute to Benjamin Britten takes us to 1977 and opens a programme shaped by reflection and remembrance. Britten, Shostakovich and Vaughan Williams offer very different responses to conflict - sometimes questioning, sometimes hopeful - showing how composers use music to process the world around them. |
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Missing Pieces
Saturday, 26 June 2027, 7.30pm Sheffield Cathedral Welcome to the 2026/2027 season of The Brigantes Orchestra! Step into a musical time machine and explore how great composers have shaped the sounds we hear today. Each concert in our new season begins in a different year, then travels across the centuries to reveal how familiar ideas - beautiful melodies, vivid storytelling, nature, memory and national character - have been reimagined again and again. Why not guarantee your seat at every concert and save 20% on the whole lot by buying a season ticket here! Our journey ends with a year that stays in the memory of musicians as the year of Mozart's death - 1791. His unfinished Requiem is played alongside another iconic, unfinished work, the 8th Symphony of Franz Schubert. Completed by later hands, both pieces remain powerful, moving and deeply human, reminding us that great music can outlive its moment and continue speaking across generations. |
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Proms Spectacular | England
Saturday, 16 May 2026, 7.30pm Sheffield Cathedral Time to drop in at home for an early summer homage to that most British of music festivals, The Proms! After a quick spin around our solar system courtesy of Gustav Holst, we're recreating the atmosphere of the Last Night of the Proms with all the usual pomp and circumstance! Featuring the Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus. |
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Reformation | Germany
Saturday, 21 March 2026 Sheffield Cathedral Austria and Germany have brought us some of the most important composers in the history of music, including Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Haydn... Our fourth stop brings a programme dabbling in the Reformation and the legacy of possibly the greatest of them all, JS Bach.
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from Russia
Friday, 23 January 2026 Sheffield Cathedral The chilly weather continues into our third stop, Russia, but the music is warm and getting warmer! Tchaikovsky's much-loved music for Romeo and Juliet boils the story down to its essesnce, while Stravinsky presents his youthful virtuosity with the ballet The Firebird.
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Northern Lights | The Nordics
Saturday, 29 November 2025 Sheffield Cathedral Enjoy the chill of the Nordic countries on our second stop as we tip over into December weather. We're in search of the Northern Lights with music from Norway, Finland and a rare jewel from Iceland. The highlight must be one of the most familiar piano concertos in the repertoire!
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L'Arlésienne | France
Friday, 17 October 2025 November 2025 Sheffield Cathedral This season we're taking our audience to six geographical hotspots for classical music: France, the Nordics, Russia, Germany, England, and America! Why not guarantee your seat at every concert and save 20% on the whole lot by buying a season ticket here! Our opening concert is all things French, with the two most recognisable pieces to come from the region, Ravel's "fifteen-minute crescendo", Boléro and the Organ Symphony of Saint-Saëns, a proper test for the acoustics of Sheffield Cathedral.
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Threads of Fate
Friday, 6 June 2025, 7.30pm Sheffield Cathedral The 2024 / 2025 season of The Brigantes Orchestra closes with passion! You could enjoy all the concerts over the year with a reduction if you buy our special season tickets: here! Our season finale is a powerful affair featuring John Williams' idiomatic, moving pieces from Schindler's List and Tchaikovsky's penultimate symphony which takes the listener from tragic darkness to blazing light. Opening the concert, the Brigantes explore Barber's sublime Adagio for Strings.
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Shifting Sands
Friday, 7 March 2025, 7.30pm Sheffield Cathedral The 2024 / 2025 season of The Brigantes Orchestra goes multimedia! You can enjoy all the concerts over the year with a reduction if you buy our special season tickets: here! A really special concert for the spring introducing a new type of solo performer, sand artist Rosa van der Vijver (link in Dutch) who will illustrate Ravel's fairy tale ballet Mother Goose live to the music! We're also featuring a piece by Dutch composer Henriëtte Bosmans (1895 to 1952), her exotic Concertino for Piano and Orchestra, as well as scores by Saint-Saëns and Poulenc.
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Baroque Bonbons
Sunday, 8 December 2024, 3.30pm Cathedral Church of Saint Marie, Norfolk Street, Sheffield (note venue change) The 2024 / 2025 season of The Brigantes Orchestra brings you much-loved baroque masterpieces! You can enjoy all the concerts of the year with a reduction if you buy our special season tickets: here! Enjoy a little escapism on a wintery Sunday afternoon as Brigantes Strings play gems from the baroque including Autumn and Winter from Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and Bach's convivial Brandenburg Concerto No. 3. |
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The Borrowers
Friday, 18 October 2024, 7.30pm Cathedral Church of Saint Marie, Norfolk Street, Sheffield (note venue change) The 2024 / 2025 season of The Brigantes Orchestra is off to a nostalgic start! You can enjoy all the concerts over the next year with a reduction if you buy our special season tickets: here! Our season opener features two symphonies, both nostalgic for past composers: Kurt Weill's effervescent potpourri of Haydn-like classical humour, and Brahms' final symphony with its passionate, restless energy, and baroque-styled finale.
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Appalachia
Saturday, 15 June 2024 Sheffield Cathedral The 2023 / 2024 season of The Brigantes Orchestra is an invitation to dance! The season finale is lyrical and pastoral with ballet music by Copland, the swansong concerto of a master, and a Czech symphony full of sunshine.
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The Little Mermaid / Carnival of the Animals
Friday, 26 April 2024 Sheffield Cathedral The 2023 / 2024 season of The Brigantes Orchestra is an invitation to dance! Why not guarantee your seat at every concert and save on the whole lot by buying a season ticket! Bring the whole family to this one! Fairy tales, fish tails, and a carnival!
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Apotheosis of the Dance
Saturday, 02 March 2024 Sheffield Cathedral The 2023 / 2024 season of The Brigantes Orchestra is an invitation to dance! Why not guarantee your seat at every concert and save on the whole lot by buying a season ticket! Spring brings Beethoven's exuberant, dancing Symphony No. 7 and Stravinsky's magpie of a ballet score borrowing music from composers like Pergolesi
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One Thousand and One
Saturday, 02 December 2023 Sheffield Cathedral The 2023 / 2024 season of The Brigantes Orchestra is an invitation to the dance! Why not guarantee your seat at every concert and save on the whole lot by buying a season ticket! Our season opening is a feast of the sumptuous and the colourful. Aidan Mikdad plays Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto and we bring you tales of the Orient.
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