Saturday Nights at the Bournemouth Pavilion
The Bournemouth Pavilion series, hosted by BBC Radio 3's Petroc Trelawny
Our Oktoberfest (22 October) includes Mozart’s sublime Clarinet Concerto, and one of my favourite overtures, the opening of Wagner’s epic opera Die Meistersinger. Rui Pinheiro, the BSO’s brilliant young associate conductor, will be in charge.
A pan-European feast on 19 November! Italy first, as the curtain rises with Rossini’s William Tell Overture, then onto Norway for Grieg’s Piano Concerto, a Russian take on Shakespeare from Tchaikovsky, and finally a French portrait of Spanish life in Bizet’s Carmen Suite.
We’ll start the New Year in Paris, on 28th January, with French maestro Fabien Gabel conducting Saint-Saëns and Jack Liebeck playing the famous Meditation from Massenet’s Thaïs. To finish, a big night for the percussionists, keeping the beat absolutely steady throughout Ravel’s Boléro.
25th February will find us in the woods and fields of Bohemia with Smetana, and we’ll meet another great Czech composer, in exile – Dvorák in America, missing his European homeland in the New World Symphony.
Mendelssohn encounters calm waters on 17 March before we raise the Irish tricolour to mark St. Patrick’s Day. We will have the fine young Irish pianist Finghin Collins playing Chopin, and the most famous of all Irish folk tunes, the Derry Air, worked into Stanford’s First Irish Rhapsody.
To finish the season bring your Union Flags as we mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with a programme of pomp, ceremony, and patriotic pride on 21 April at Bournemouth Pavilion.
With the concerts now starting at 7pm there is plenty of time for you to continue enjoying your evening with a post-concert meal.
I look forward to seeing you at the Pavilion.
Petroc Trelawny
