Risingholme Orchestra presents The Moon in June

Risingholme Orchestra invites you to a concert based on works chosen by our players, starting with Aaron Copland's celebrated Fanfare for the Common Man.

The first of two compositions by New Zealand composers - John Rimmer's Waitaki Reflections - has a special poignancy for us, as it commemorates Risingholme trumpet player Vic Bartley who died in 2022.

Belgium-born Steven Verhelst's A Song for Japan keeps us firmly in the 21st century, followed by an early work by Richard Strauss: his Serenade in E-flat major, completed when he was only 17.

David Farquhar's Ring Round the Moon dance suite - his best-known and most frequently performed piece - rounds off the first half of our programme.

Dmitri Shostakovich's Festive Overture was written at lightning speed in the space of three days; Samuel Barber's celebrated Adagio for Strings, on the other hand, was a more leisurely affair in both timescale and tempo.

The 17th-century composer Matthew Locke's Music for His Majesty's Sackbuts and Cornetts is a masterpiece of early English wind music. No less a masterpiece are Antonín Dvořák's two sets of Slavonic Dances, from which we have selected three to conclude today's concert.