Enjoy the Magic of Classical Music with Warwickshire Symphony Orchestra
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Next Concert
Saturday 12th October
Warwick Hall
About WSO
Our next Concert
Saturday 12th October 2024 at 7.30 pm
Warwick Hall, Warwick School, Myton Road, Warwick
Dances of Galanta - Kodaly
Piano Concerto no 2 - Rachmaninov
2nd Symphony - Sibelius
Ryan Martin Bradshaw – piano
Roger Coull – conductor
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Spa Centre - 3pm Sunday 24th November 2024
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Our Conductor
Principal Conductor - Roger Coull
Warwickshire Symphony Orchestra 's Principal Conductor is Roger Coull
Roger Coull’s route into conducting has come very much from the eyes and ears of a performer. As a string quartet leader of international standing he has always been used to interpreting music and every aspect of the process of turning a vision into performance.
Associate Conductor - Paul Leddington Wright
Warwickshire Symphony Orchestra's Associate Conductor is Paul Leddington Wright
Paul started conducting at the age of 15 He won an organ scholarship to study at Cambridge and continued his conducting alongside his studies.
Following university, he started a career in Musical Theatre. Work in the West End and provincial theatre lasted until he moved to Coventry to take up the position of sub-organist then musical director at the Cathedral (a position he retired from recently)
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Kodaly - Dances of Galanta
Dances of Galánta was composed in 1933 and draws from an anthology of folk songs transcribed from Galanta that Kodály encountered in Vienna. He used his then-extensive knowledge and skill of orchestration to give these melodies and their appropriate accompaniments a chance to shine in the concert hall, and shine they do! The piece is divided in five sections with no break
Rachmaninov - 2nd Piano Concerto
Composed in 1900 no other concerto by Rachmaninoff is as popular with audiences and pianists alike as his Second Concerto; many attribute this popularity with "memorable melodies that appear in each movement. Rachmaninoff's biographer Geoffrey Norris characterized the concerto as "notable for its conciseness and for its lyrical themes, which are just sufficiently
Sibelius - Symphony No 2
This symphony is the most popular and most frequently played of Sibelius's symphonies. It is more skilfully orchestrated than the 1st . The ideas of form are mature and the violent Slavic gloom is replaced by a more classical touch.
The heroic first and final movements were just what the public needed in 1902, during a period of Russian oppression. The first performance con
Bringing classical music to life: WSO in concert
