- Sat, 21 Mar 2026
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A Night at the Ballet
Performance
Sat, 21 Mar 2026: 7:30pm View details | Book ticketsOur concert in Southwell Minster this year will take you to the theatre for an evening of ballet:
Ravel - Mother Goose
Tomasi - Saxophone Concerto
Soloist: Joao Luis Correia
Tchaikovsky - Excerpts from Sleeping BeautyEnjoy technicolour music from two of classical music’s greatest storytellers in ballet scores based on two much-loved fairytales.
Ravel originally wrote Ma mère l'Oye as a piano duet which was later orchestrated into a five-piece suite. This form is the most frequently heard today. Later the same year, he further expanded it into a ballet, separating the five initial pieces with four new interludes and adding two movements at the start. The full ballet which we will play includes the "Sleeping Beauty Pavane".
Tchaikovsky's enduringly popular ballet also told the tale of Sleeping Beauty and our concert includes various excerpts from the full score, including the Sleeping Beauty Waltz.
In addition to all that, Portuguese saxophonist, Joao Luis Correia will captivate us with his virtuosity in Tomasi’s colourful saxophone writing.
Joao Luis CorreiaTicket pricing/options: Front Nave - £23 - adults/OAPs
Front Nave - £7 - students/children
Back Nave - £18 - adults/OAPs
Back Nave - £7 -students/children
Side Aisles - £18 - adults/OAPs
Side Aisles - £7 - students/children
Wheelchair users - £23 for wheelchair user & assistant
Students and children - £7 for any seatsTickets: 
Tickets available via NPO members, on the door or from Cathedral Shop - 01636 812933
All seating unreserved
- Sun, 28 Jun 2026
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Slavic Masterpieces
Performance
Sun, 28 Jun 2026: 3:00pm View details | Book ticketsThe final concert of our season is an evening of Eastern European inspired music:
Dvorak - Cello Concerto
Soloist: Jacob Shaw
Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra
Dvorak’s stunningly beautiful Cello Concerto is full of joyous themes inspired by his Czech homeland. It is his last solo concerto and was written in 1894 for his friend, the cellist Hanuš Wihan, but was premiered in London 2 years later by the English cellist Leo Stern.
Bartok’s virtuoso orchestral showpiece is one of his best-known, most popular, and most accessible works. Bartók said that he called the piece a concerto rather than a symphony because of the way each section of instruments is treated in a soloistic and virtuosic way. It combines Western music with Hungarian folk melodies in a spectacular conclusion to the season.
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Jacob ShawTicket pricing/options: Stalls - £23 - adults/OAPs
Stalls - £7 - students/children
Arena - £18 - adults/OAPs
Arena - £7 - students/children
Wheelchair users - £23 for wheelchair user & assistantTickets:
Tickets available via NPO members and on the door.
All seating unreserved
