Beauty & wit - music of the 18th &

The overture to Mozarts comic opera Cosi fan Tutte is a sparkling introduction to our concert conducted by Christopher Stark.Written a few years later while Haydn was in England the London Symphony is the culmination of his lifelong development of the form and brims with his usual charm and wit. Madeleine Pickering joins us to play Samuel Barbers beautiful but fearsomely difficult Violin Concerto.Madeleine has performed across the UK.At the Royal Academy she won all the major prizes for violin and viola and she is completing her studies under Michael Foyle at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Köln where she has won the concerto competition. Malcolm Arnolds music is better known than his name.He wrote many film scores including for Bridge on the River Kwai and the original St Trinians series.Like Haydn his music is tuneful and often witty as in this Serenade for Small Orchestra. Tickets £18, concessions £15, under 18s £7. Save £1 per ticket by advance booking online at www.finchleysymphony.org/concerts