Classical Concert - Orchestra Pro Anima in Malvern

On Sunday 22 March at 3pm at Christ Church, Avenue Road, Malvern, Orchestra Pro Anima, directed by Michael Bochmann MBE, with pianist Tim Sidford, will give a concert featuring some wonderful and much-loved music covering the Baroque, Classical and Romantic eras, including a Mozart Piano Concerto, a Chopin Ballade and Vaughan Williams’ ‘The Lark Ascending’.

• Corelli - Concerto Grosso in D major Op 6 No 4
• Vivaldi - Concerto for four violins in B minor RV580
• Mozart - Piano Concerto No 12 in A major K414
• Chopin - Ballade No 1 in G minor Op 23 (piano solo)
• Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
• Holst - Brook Green Suite H190

The concert opens with a much-loved Concerto Grosso by Corelli in which the dialogue between the solo instruments and the orchestra is particularly telling.  There follows a well-known Vivaldi Concerto in which the texture of the four violin solo parts is constantly varied.  To complete the first half, the fine pianist Tim Sidford is the soloist in Mozart’s most charming, intimate Piano Concerto No 12 in A major.  Tim begins the second half with Chopin’s exquisite G minor Ballade, a most poetic work in which virtuosity is at the service of art.  The orchestra then returns, with Michael Bochmann as soloist, in Vaughan Williams’ famous, highly evocative ‘The Lark Ascending’. The programme finishes with Holst’s lyrical Brook Green Suite, the concluding Dance of which provides a most vibrant end to the concert.

Tickets:  £22 and £17 students half-price and free entry for children aged 10 and under from Malvern TIC, The Lyttelton Well Courtyard, 6 Church Street, Malvern on 01684 892289 and
The Courtyard, Hereford on 01432 340555 and online at www.courtyard.org.uk