Béla Bartók

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And this is, say, on Tuesday 10th November, 7.30pm start and prices are £26.50. And if classical music is more your thing, then on Wednesday 25th November at 7.30pm in Peterborough Cathedral, you can experience world-class live classical music as you've never imagined it in Britain's Sinfonia's spectacular, immersive and welcoming concert format with the ticket system being pay-what-you-can from just £6.00. from iconic music you'll know and love, to add to playlist new favourites, surround sound playlist, presents Handel's Zadok the Priest and Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, Allegri's Miserere, Prokofiev's Dance of the Nights from Romeo and Juliet, Ennio Morricone's Cinema Paradiso Suite, stomping sets from folk star Will Pound, and music by Bartok, Eriks Essenval's Grieg, Morten Lauridsen, Ravel, Carolyn Shaw, Teleman, and many more.

So, also at the Cathedral, but on the 12th of November, and starring John Owen Jones, the record-breaking West End and Broadway star, the show is Voices of Valjean, and it's an unforgettable evening of powerhouse vocals and iconic musical theatre.

This spellbinding show brings together three extraordinary West End stars, each having conquered one of the most legendary roles in musical theatre – Jean Valjean in Les Miserables.

Oh, wow.

But in real life, even if you were a musician, you would look at this and think, well, It's an unsophisticated Baby Schoenberg or, you know, Bartok.

But it's not out of the realm of reality, of real music.

And

Brahms thought the music he'd played with Reményi was folk music, so he borrowed some of it for his dances.

But later on, when composers Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály started collecting Hungarian folk music, they realized that many of the melodies Brahms used were really popular music written by real composers.

People couldn't get enough of the Hungarian dances, so Brahms began to publish them in different arrangements, like the one his violinist friend Josef Joachim made for violin and piano.

Brahms turned some of his dances into orchestra pieces.

And they're going to perform pieces together as like a... super group, as well as a couple of pieces that like will spotlight each of the orchestras.

And there's work by Bartok, Ravel, Prokofiev.

And then one of my personal favorite pieces of classical music, it's Respighi's Pines of Rome, such like this sparkling little song.

And I first heard this when I was a teenager in a symphony.