Music of Innocence: Arvo Pärt, Mozart & Mahler from the Northern Chamber Orchestra

The Northern Chamber Orchestra's (NCO)Autumn season continues at The King's School, Macclesfield on Saturday 4 November 2023 with a concert that celebrates exceptional female musicianship. as the orchestra is joined by conductor Delyana Lazarova, violinist Chloë Hanslip and soprano Nadine Benjamin for a programme of Arvo Pärt, Mozart and Mahler.

Delyana Lazarova returns to NCO following her performance of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony with them last year. She is joined by soloist Chloë Hanslip, NCO's artist in association, for Mozart's Violin Concerto in D major, K 218, and the evening ends with a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with soloist Nadine Benjamin. Mahler's symphony is being performed in the chamber orchestration by Iain Farrington. The programme begins with Arvo Pärt's Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten.

Established in 1967, the Northern Chamber Orchestra comprising approximately twenty-five musicians, an ensemble of distinguished chamber players, many of whom frequently step into the limelight as soloists.  It currently presents an annual series of eight concerts at The King’s School and St Michael’s Church in Macclesfield, as well as  contributing to the Buxton Festival both in the main opera productions, and in orchestral performances at St John’s Church in Buxton. 

Full details from the orchestra's website.