Ripon’s renowned St Cecilia Orchestra is much more than just an orchestra.
At its most spectacular it is an exceptionally fine and very large symphony orchestra, often working with top class international soloists and capable of giving high-quality performances
Virtuoso violinist Chloe Hanslip joins St Cecilia Orchestra in a majestic programme commemorating 200 years since Beethoven’s death.
The powerful and expressive Egmont overture opens the concert, followed by Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, proclaimed by the celebrated violinist Joachim as ‘the greatest German violin concerto’. After the interval comes the monumental Eroica Symphony: a work which broke boundaries in symphonic form, harmony and emotional content, and which is often considered to be the first Romantic symphony.