Event Description

Orchestra Pro Anima perform music covering the Baroque, Classical and Romantic eras, including a Mozart Piano Concerto and Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending.

Orchestra Pro Anima is directed from the violin by Michael Bochmann MBE, with piano soloist Tim Sidford.

Programme

Corelli Concerto Grosso in D major Op 6 No 4
Vivaldi Concerto for four violins in B minor RV580
Mozart Piano Concerto No 12 in A major K414
Chopin Ballade No 1 in G minor Op 23 (piano solo)
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Holst Brook Green Suite H190

The concert opens with a much-loved Concerto Grosso by Corelli in which the dialogue between the solo instruments and the orchestra is particularly telling. There follows a well-known Vivaldi Concerto in which the texture of the four violin solo parts is constantly varied. To complete the first half, the fine pianist Tim Sidford is the soloist in a most charming, intimate Mozart Piano Concerto.

Tim begins the second half with Chopin’s exquisite G minor Ballade, a most poetic work in which virtuosity is at the service of art. The orchestra then returns, with Michael Bochmann as soloist, in Vaughan Williams’ famous, highly evocative The Lark Ascending. The programme finishes with Holst’s lyrical Brook Green Suite, the concluding Dance of which provides a most vibrant end to the concert.

Tickets

£22 (Band A) and £17 (Band B) (students half-price and free entry for children aged 10 and under) – available from Malvern Tourist Information Centre in person and on 01684 892289 (until 5pm, 21 March), from The Courtyard, Hereford in person, online and on 01432 340555, and on the door from 2.15pm on the day of the concert

Sunday 22 March 2026

3:00pm

Christ Church

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Location

Christ Church

Avenue Road

Malvern

WR14 3BG

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