NEWBURY Spring FESTIVAL | 2023

50 box office 01635 522733 newburyspringfestival.org.uk 51 BBC National Orchestra of Wales Saturday 20 May Winner of the Finnish critics’ prize 2021 for the Best Newcomer in the Arts, Emilia Hoving has emerged as one of most exciting young Finnish conductors of today, and for this concert with BBC National Orchestra of Wales she will conduct two works by her fellow countryman Sibelius. The final concert of this year’s Spring Festival opens, appropriately, with his tone poem Spring Song for Orchestra , and closes with one of his most popular and romantic works, Sibelius’s Symphony No.1. In between these Nordic masterworks, Tobias Feldmann, one of the most distinguished musical personalities of his generation, will perform Beethoven’s monumental Violin Concerto, his only major work for solo violin and orchestra, and the concerto for which Tobias is internationally renowned. Tobias Feldmann violin Emilia Hoving conductor Sibelius Spring Song for Orchestra Beethoven Violin Concerto Sibelius Symphony no 1 St Nicolas Church West Mills RG14 5HG 7.30pm (ends approx 9.40pm) £46.25 £31.25 £21.25 (includes £1.25 Corn Exchange booking fee per ticket) Sponsored by A consortium of friends and relatives of the late Mrs J Stevens KVO Adrian Swire Charitable Trust The Julian Bliss Septet The Sound of Film, Jazz in Hollywood Saturday 20 May With their irrepressible, jazz-infused energy, The Julian Bliss Septet presents some of the great music that has come out of Hollywood. Starting with the silent film and the early ‘talkies’ in The Great Depression years, the Septet also plays music fromwartime movies, musicals and even the classic Disney blockbusters. Including Cheek to Cheek , As Time Goes By , Sing Sing Sing , Days of Wine and Roses , and When you Wish upon a Star . Expect to be tempted to dance and sing along to this much- loved music, played by one of the most sparkling and talented jazz ensembles of our day. Julian Bliss clarinet Joe Webb piano Tom Farmer bass Martin Shaw trumpet Colin Oxley guitar Ed Richardson drums Lewis Wright vibraphone Corn Exchange, Newbury RG14 5BD 7.30pm (ends approx 9.30pm) £23.25 (includes £1.25 Corn Exchange booking fee per ticket) Sponsored by Viking © Greg Helgeson © Laura Oja © Kaupo Kikkas Free for Under 30s BOOK NOW BOOK NOW