The internationally renowned Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra will be in concert at Lighthouse Poole and Mayflower Theatre, Southampton

The music of Wagner, Lennon and McCartney, and Gershwin will be spotlighted in a series of Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra concerts next month.

The Fantastic Symphony concert at Lighthouse Poole on Wednesday 5th November introduces Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s chief conductor Mark Wigglesworth alongside saxophonist Jess Gillam for the UK premiere of Dani Howard’s Saxophone Concerto; a homage to the instrument’s inventor Adolphe Sax.

Hector Belioz was a good friend of Sax and the first composer to write a piece for it. His Symphonie fantastique sounded like no other piece ever written when it was first performed in the 1830s.

The programme also includes Wagner’s Forbidden Love Overture.

The Two of Us: The Lennon & McCartney Songbook will be performed at Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, on Sunday 9th November.

This two-act evening will take audiences chronologically from Lennon and McCartney’s first meeting in 1957 to the end of The Beatles in 1970.

A concert exploring love and devotion will be at Lighthouse Poole on Wednesday 12th November. Featuring Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, the piece is a memorial to the fallen in the First World War, including his friends and brothers. Profoundly moving, this is a work infused with a deep love for lost loved ones.

Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder was inspired by his love for the young, golden-haired wife of his wealthy friend Otto, Mathilde Wesendonck. Mezzo soprano Jennifer Johnston joins the Orchestra – and Bournemouth Symphony Chorus – for this emotional piece.

Serenades and Starbursts will feature a 14-string Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra ensemble at St Peter’s Church, Bournemouth, on Friday 14th November.

Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings lies at the heart of this piece and is both poised and sedate. Bartok’s Romanian Folk Dances and Skyork’s beguiling Ukrainian Melody take us eastwards, while Holst pays homage to British folk songs with his charming St. Paul’s Suite.

Renowned conductor SIan Edwards joins Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra for a concert centred around Korngold’s Violin Concerto on Wednesday 26th November at Lighthouse, Poole.

Korngold uses a selection of his most haunting, expressive and beautiful themes to create a concerto that would prove his prowess beyond a writer of swashbuckling movie scores.

For full details of all concerts and booking information, visit https://bsolive.com