Wolsey Orchestra: Ipswich-based Wolsey Orchestra, conductor Anthony Weeden, launches its 40th Birthday Year. A rousing welcome to the Olympics by Shostakovich leads into Stravinsky's tribute to the ballet music of Tchaikovsky. Bury's Jamie Foreman plays the beguiling violin solos in Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.
Shostakovich ' Festival Overture (signature tune of the 1980 Moscow Olympics),
Stravinsky ' Divertimento: The fairy's Kiss,
Rimsky-Korsakov ' Scheherazade
Wolsey Orchestra at The Apex in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk on Saturday, 11 February 2012.
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