HSO 50th Anniversary Gala concert with Eric Lu

Henley Symphony Orchestra

Ian Brown                            Conductor

Eric Lu                                   Piano

BRAHMS                               Academic Festival Overture

MOZART                               Piano Concerto No 20 K466

DVOŘÁK                               Symphony No 9 ‘From the New World’

HSO, now one of the country’s leading amateur orchestras, is proud to celebrate both its 50th Anniversary and 21st concert at the Hexagon. We are delighted to welcome Eric Lu, winner of the 2018 Leeds International Piano Competition, as soloist in Mozart’s dark and dramatic Piano Concerto No 20.  The second movement is a tender Romance, used so effectively in the soundtrack of ‘the film, 'Amadeus'

Dvořák’s most famous Symphony No 9, ‘From the New World’, has an apparently inexhaustible flow of melodies with a justly celebrated slow movement at its heart.  HSO last played this symphony at its first Hexagon concert in 1999 so it is a fitting conclusion to this concert.