A New Horizon

NLH will be joined by Bra-vissima Ladies Choir for Fauré’s elegant Pavane and the dreamlike final movement of Debussy’s Nocturnes. Smetana’s majestic Vyšehrad opens the journey before Dvořák’s joyful and much-loved Symphony No. 8 brings the evening to an uplifting conclusion.

Bedřich Smetana | Má Vlast: No. 1, Vyšehrad

Gabriel Fauré | Pavane, Op. 50

Claude Debussy | Nocturnes

Antonín Dvořák | Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88

Dance Around the World

Leave the traditional concert format behind and join NLH for an evening of dance, rhythm and fun.

From elegant European waltzes and fiery folk dances to an American Hoe-Down and the irresistible Latin rhythms of Márquez’s Danzón No. 2, this short and lively programme travels across countries, cultures and musical styles.

Programme Highlights:

Johannes Brahms | Hungarian Dance No. 6 (orch. A. Parlow)

Aram Khachaturian | Excerpts from Masquerade Suite:

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Waltz from Eugene Onegin

Arturo Márquez | Danzón No. 2

Soundscapes

NLH’s strings take centre stage in Britten’s energetic Simple Symphony, while the winds create contrasting sound worlds in Anna Clyne’s Overflow and Ruth Gipps’ atmospheric Seascape. The whole orchestra then comes together for Mendelssohn’s dramatic and evocative Scottish Symphony.

Benjamin Britten | Simple Symphony, Op. 4

Anna Clyne | Overflow

Ruth Gipps | Seascape, Op. 53

Felix Mendelssohn | Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, “Scottish”

Pictures at an Exhibition

A Season Finale of Orchestral Colour and Storytelling

NLH ends the season on its largest and most colourful canvas.

The first half moves through Bach reimagined by Elgar, the atmospheric contemporary sound world of Australian composer Ella Macens’ The Space Between Stars, and the windswept drama of Ethel Smyth’s On the Cliffs of Cornwall.

The journey culminates in Ravel’s spectacular orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition — a musical gallery filled with vivid characters, striking images and some of the most brilliant orchestral colours in the repertoire.

A bold, immersive finale celebrating imagination, storytelling and the full power of the orchestra.

Bach/Elgar | Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537

Ella Macens | The Space Between Stars (2017)

Ethel Smyth | The Wreckers: Prelude to Act II — On the Cliffs of Cornwall

Mussorgsky/Ravel | Pictures at an Exhibition