WHAT'S ON WITH
THE BRIGANTES
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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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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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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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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. |
PREVIOUSLY
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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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