European Union Chamber Orchestra

Fri 25 Jan 2013 8pm

Butterworth Hall: £11.50 - £36, Under 26s £12 (+ booking fee)

Conductor: Hans-Peter Hofmann

Musicians: Tasmin Little - violin, Katrin Finch - harp

Composer: Grieg, Mozart, Elgar, Gorecki, Haydn

Grieg – Holberg Suite
Mozart – Violin Concerto No.4
Interval
Elgar – Elegy for Strings
Górecki – Three Pieces in Old Style
Haydn – Symphony No.48 Maria Theresia

The European Union Chamber Orchestra is an orchestra with the spirit of a string quartet – a crack team of superb young players, united by the sheer joy of making music together. And you can hear it in every note, with critics raving over their “warmth of sound, the elegance of phrasing and the razor-sharp focus of their ensemble”.

Tonight, they bring all their signature verve to a truly joyous programme: Grieg’s sunny mock-baroque suite, Elgar’s heartfelt Elegy, and a Haydn symphony fit for an empress. Then Henryk Górecki proves that 20th century music can be just as tuneful: if you’re one of the millions who fell in love with his Third Symphony, you’ll be bowled over by his atmospheric Three Pieces in Old Style.

And national treasure Tasmin Little joins the EUCO as first among equals in the teenage Mozart’s bubbly Fourth Violin Concerto. The music of friends.

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Butterworth Hall

With a maximum capacity of 2000 standing or 1500 seated this concert hall has an outstanding natural acoustic and is the home of our International Concert Series, as well as the majority of our music gigs and big name comedians. Butterworth Hall has recently had a £6.9 million redevelopment and reopened in autumn 2009 .