A PERIOD of priority subscription booking is over, so individual concert tickets go on sale from Monday for the 2008-9 Sheffield International Concert Season at the City Hall.
They are all one price, £15, irrespective of seating location in the hall, making many concerts a bargain.
The season gets off to a rousing start on Sepember 27 with Beethoven's paean to the indomitable spirit of the human race, his Choral Sympho
ny, from the Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus, BBC Philharmonic and the orchestra's highly thought-of music director Gianandrea Noseda.
Further popular symphonies among the 16 concerts are Tchaikovsky's Pathetique (October 17), Brahms First (November 7), Nielsen's Fifth (February 6), Dvorák's New World (February 20), Mendelssohn's Third – the Scottish (March 13), his Fourth – the Italian, and Fifth (May 22).
Familiar concertos include Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto (October 24), Mozart's Clarinet Concerto (November 7), Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto (February 6) and Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto (March 13).
Other well-known music includes an extended suite from Khachaturian's Spartacus (October 24), Rutter's Gloria (November 1), Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite No 1 (February 6), Mendelssohn's Elijah (March 6) and Haydn's Nelson Mass (May 29).
The Hallé, Moscow Philharmonic, Mancester Camerata, Berlin Symphony and European Union Chamber Orchestra are among other orchestras and noted conductors include Mark Elder, Yuri Simonov, Nicholas Kraemer, Lothar Zagrosek and Arild Remmereit.
Among an array of internationally-celebrated instrumentalists are pianists Freddy Kempf, John Lill, Natasha Paremski and Howard Shelley, violinists Alina Pogotskina and Eva Stegman and cellist Pieter Wispelwey.
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