La Serenissima

Orchestras live

Encounters both welcome and unexpected are a feature of the year's orchestral series.  Vivaldi specialists La Serenissima under director, violinist Adrian Chandler bring a programme of the composer's music including the concerto recently discovered by a Southampton academic.  Aurora Orchestra's performance of Walton's Façade in 2010 introduced audiences to this exciting young ensemble.  They return with another programme of words and music, this time of a more chilling variety with horror writer Peter Straub.  Journalist Melanie Reid's recuperation from a serious riding accident has spawned a fascinating column in The Times and is the inspiration for Sally Beamish's new work which the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment bring to us in February as part of the celebrations for London 2012.  And 2012 also sees a welcome return for the London Sinfonietta as part of a new relationship with Turner Sims, more details of which will be announced in the new year.