- The Bath Festival Orchestra announces a season of live concerts commencing in September 2022 and running until June 2023.
- The concerts will take place in two of the country’s leading concert venues, at St George’s in Bristol and Cadogan Hall in London’s Chelsea.
- Guest artists across the season include British trumpeter Matilda Lloyd, Franco-Albanian pianist Marie-Ange Nguci, Scottish tenor Thomas Walker, and British horn player Ben Goldscheider.
- Peter Manning will conduct all of the Bath Festival Orchestra concerts in his role of Artistic Director.
- Committed to including lesser-known voices in its programming, the Bath Festival Orchestra will perform brilliant works by 19th- and 20th-century composers including Grażyna Bacewicz (Poland), Louise Farrenc (France), Agnes Tyrell (Czech) and Irish-English composer Elizabeth Maconchy.
- The season also features classical favourites, including Beethoven’s mighty Piano Concerto No. 5, Mendelssohn’s exquisite Overture “The Hebrides”, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, Dvorak’s colourful Czech Suite, Britten’s Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge and Haydn’s remarkable Trumpet Concerto.
- Elsewhere in the season, the orchestra will go back to its roots with a revival of one of its original programmes encompassing the works of Tippet, Corelli and Britten, previously performed with the orchestra’s founder Yehudi Menuhin at the helm.
- Speaking of the Bath Festival Orchestra’s 2022 / 2023 season, Concertmaster and Associate Artistic Director Maren Bosma said: “The Bath Festival Orchestra is extremely pleased to be putting on a brand new season with canonic masterpieces, rarely performed treasures, and everything in between. We look forward to sharing the stage with brilliant guest artists in beloved works by Beethoven, Haydn and Britten.”
- The 2022 / 2023 season builds on the success of the orchestra’s recent concerts across the country’s finest stages, having been hailed as ‘truly impressive’ and a ‘revelation’ by The Observer.
Event Details
Tuesday 27 September 2022, 7.30pm
St George’s, Bristol
Wednesday 28 September 2022, 7.30pm
Cadogan Hall, London
Mendelssohn Overture ‘The Hebrides’
Grażyna Bacewicz Contradizione I & II
Beethoven Violin Concerto
Bath Festival Orchestra
Peter Manning conductor
Maren Bosma violin
Sunday 12 February 2023, 7.30pm
Cadogan Hall, London
Wednesday 15 February 2023, 7.30pm
St George’s, Bristol
Louise Farrenc Symphony No 2 in D major
Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E flat major
Schubert Symphony No 5 in B flat major
Bath Festival Orchestra
Peter Manning conductor
Matilda Lloyd trumpet
Tuesday 11 April 2023, 7.30pm
St George’s, Bristol
Wednesday 12 April 2023, 7.30pm
Cadogan Hall, London
Agnes Tyrrell Overture in C minor, ‘The King in Israel’
Dvořák Czech Suite
Dvořák Songs My Mother Taught Me
Beethoven 12 Contredanses
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5
Bath Festival Orchestra
Peter Manning conductor
Marie-Ange Nguci piano
Tuesday 6 June 2023, 7.30pm
St George’s, Bristol
Thursday 8 June 2023, 7.30pm
Cadogan Hall, London
Britten Serenade for horn, tenor & strings
Antonio Corelli Concerto Grosso in F Major Op. 6, No. 2
Elizabeth Maconchy Suite for Strings in E minor
Tippett Fantasia Concertante On A Theme Of Corelli
Britten Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge
Bath Festival Orchestra
Peter Manning conductor
Ben Goldscheider horn
Thomas Walker Tenor