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The English Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players return by popular demand to perform Franz Schubert’s much-loved Octet scored for clarinet, bassoon, horn, two violins, viola, cello and double bass.

This is a free concert but there will be a retiring collection at the end of the performance.

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The ESO returns to Worcester’s Swan Theatre with a programme of music which were all created by composers in their youth.

In 1829, the 20 year old Felix Mendelssohn travelled to the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides west of the Scottish mainland and visited Fingal’s Cave where, in a note to his sister, Fanny, he wrote “In order to make you realize how extraordinarily the Hebrides have affected me, the following came into my head there.” The work was completed on 16 December 1830 and was originally entitled Die einsame Insel (The Lonely Island). However, Mendelssohn later revised the score and renamed the piece Die Hebriden (The Hebrides). The final revision was completed by 20 June 1832.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart travelled to Italy with his father, Leopold, between 1769 and 1773, where the young Wolfgang met Pietro Nardini who was one of Italy’s finest violin virtuosi at the time, and also befriended Thomas Linley, a young Englishman and gifted student of Nardini. Mozart not only increased his interest in perfecting his own violin playing but also started to compose seriously for the violin which resulted in him composing five concertos for violin and orchestra between April to December 1775, aged 19.

The concert will end with Schubert’s Symphony No.3, which was written in 1815 when Schubert was 18, however, like some of his other symphonies, it was not published during Schubert’s lifetime. This symphony is shorter than his first two symphonies however it is notably concise and indicates his intentions and ideas on expanding the scale of the symphony.

Presented by members of The English Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Woods, Zoë Beyers and Joely Koos let their hair down as they return to the Royal Porcelain Works for another informal, entertaining and engaging evening mixing musical performance and storytelling. The programme opens closes with two more of David Yang’s hilarious Klezmer pieces chronicling the hapless lives of the citizens of Chelm. Two coming of age stories, one playful and funny (Ferdinand the Bull), one personal and poignant (The Ugly Duckling), make up the balance of the first half of the evening. After the interval, we travel to ancient Indonesia for a colourful story about a how a young woman’s bravery and compassion saved a nation.

Family friendly, but aimed at all ages.