Violinist is looking forward to return
London Philharmonic Orchestra continues its residency at Brighton Dome with a programme entitled Daydreams and Fantasies on Saturday (March 12) at 7.30pm.
The programme will be Williams – Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Rhymes; Rachmaninoff – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; and Tchaikovsky Symphony No 1 (Winter Daydreams).
Kate Birchall, one of the second violins, is particularly looking forward to being back in Brighton, a residency the orchestra has enjoyed for all the 18 years she has been with them.
“We always have lovely audiences in Brighton and they are certainly very enthusiastic whenever we have been there, and the lovely thing is that some of the Glyndebourne audiences will be coming along as well, I am sure. Just to have audiences back in the hall is fantastic. When lockdown came we did continue working and we did manage to do lots of things. We were working online which was great, just to be doing it, but really there is nothing more demoralising when you get to the end of a lovely piece and there is just silence that meets you!
“Also when we were able to get back together for that, it was still strange because of social distancing. We had to slim down the orchestra as much as possible and we were two metres away from each other which took a lot of getting used to.”