Saturday 23rd November 2024, 7.30pm

Victoria Rooms Auditorium, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1SA

Bristol University Symphony Orchestra

Conducted by Neal Farwell

Missy Mazzoli: Orpheus Undone

Augusta Holmès: La Nuit et l’Amour

Anna Clyne: Masquerade

Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

Take a journey from darkness to light, in music spanning a century and half to the present day. We start in the Underworld, with Missy Mazzoli’s freeze-frame study on moments of loss and decision in the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. In contrast to those agonies, Augusta Holmès sings a passionate and tender love song in La Nuit et l‘Amour. Anna Clyne’s Masquerade plunges us into a different night-time experience, of whirling, carousing revelry. Our programme concludes with Béla Bartók’s celebrated Concerto for Orchestra, full of wistful folk melodies, stern argument, jinking dances and fizzing energy, wrapped around a central episode of his own unique ‘night music’.

Tickets: balcony and stalls standard rate £15; balcony and stalls concession rate £10; £3 for UoB students (with presentation of student ID card).

Tickets can also be purchased on the evening, via card payment.

Please note, we are unable to accept cash payments.

If you have any further questions, please contact the Concerts and Resources Office [email protected].