Forest Philharmonic plays Sibelius and Beethoven

Event information

NIELSEN Helios Overture
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

Mark Shanahan conductor
Edgar Bailey violin

Depicting the rising sun, the Helios Overture will brighten up a February evening, before one of the finest violin concertos ever written. This Beethoven symphony is arguably his most joyous, with a hauntingly beautiful slow movement familiar to many from its use in ‘The King’s Speech’.