WHAT'S ON WITH
THE BRIGANTES
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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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Northern Lights | The Nordics
Saturday, 29 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! 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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from Russia
Friday, 23 January 2026 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! 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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Reformation | Germany
Saturday, 21 March 2026 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! 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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Proms Spectacular | England
Saturday, 16 May 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! 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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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. |
PREVIOUSLY
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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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Elgar's Enigma Variations | Fin de siecle
Saturday, 10 June 2023 Sheffield Cathedral The 2022 / 2023 season of Brigantes concerts explore nature's realm, indulge in a touch of nostalgia, and highlight the influence and subtle beauty of British music. Why not guarantee your seat at every concert and save 20% on the whole lot by buying a season ticket here! Three pieces from the last gasp of the 19th Century. Elgar's testament to friendship, steeped in the Worcestershire countryside, Debussy's symphonic landscapes of clouds, the city and the sea, and beginning with Suk's glorious Scherzo Fantastique.
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Façade Entertainment
Saturday, 25 March 2023 Sheffield Cathedral "One good tune after another..." Walton's musical entertainment under witty poems by Edith Sitwell is gleefully 'music hall' and brimming with dance rhythms. Joyously ridiculous! Join us for forty minutes of fantastic fun on a Saturday afternoon!
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Symphonic Landscapes
Saturday, 4 March 2023 Sheffield Cathedral Our spring concert includes epic Sibelius, sparkling, passionate Mendelssohn, and a witty, colourful pastiche of Rossini by Eric Fenby based on a very famous Yorkshire theme... We're thrilled to welcome back Lisa Jacobs who made an extraordinary debut with Bruch's violin concerto in 2019. Don't forget your hat!
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Remembrance
Saturday, 15 October 2022 Sheffield Cathedral The 22/23 season opening concert is a moving tribute to those loved and lost. Autumnal music by Finzi with top soloist Emma Johnson, a pastoral symphony describing the landscape in northern France during World War I, and "the next great Adagio" after those by Mahler and Barber. Enjoy this powerful music in the peaceful setting of Sheffield Cathedral.
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Jazz Origins
Saturday, 18 June 2022 City Hall, Sheffield Presenting a concert featuring pieces with their roots in Jazz, Blues and early American musicals. Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue played by Christopher Devine is on the bill alongside Kurt Weill’s suite from The Lady in the Dark, a musical which he wrote with Ira Gershwin, and William Grant Still’s First Symphony, evocative of spirituals, jazz and the blues. |
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in Sleep and Dreams
Saturday, 26 February 2022 Cathedral, Sheffield Music by Britten, Mendelssohn and Brahms, optimistic of Spring and Summer and all exploring themes of sleep, the night and dreams. The programme includes Brahms' sunny Symphony No. 2 and the young Mendelssohn's overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Mozart Influencers
Friday, 15 October 2021 Cathedral, Sheffield Save the date! The Brigantes Orchestra are back with our first concert of the season 2021 / 2022 at the Sheffield Cathedral. Featuring Mozart's Symphony No. 40. |
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Brigantes' New World
Saturday, 29 February 2020 Cathedral, Sheffield The Brigantes presents Dvorak’s last and best known Symphony ‘from the New World’, alongside the dark and emotional Cello Concerto of Edward Elgar featuring soloist Pepijn Meeuws. Opening the concert is a hidden gem of an overture by the conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent. |
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Beethoven's Fifth
Thursday, 17 October 2019 Victoria Hall, Sheffield A Classic FM perennial, Bruch’s beautiful first Violin Concerto is performed by Dutch rising star Lisa Jacobs. Paired with Beethoven’s most famous symphony, this programme is ideal for first-timers as well as seasoned concert-goers. The hidden gem is Raff’s orchestration of the great Bach Chaconne – wonderfully reimagined by a forgotten icon of the mid 1800s. |
