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.It’s been twenty years since Aurora Orchestra tore up the rule book and made its name worldwide as a boundary-breaking ensemble, creating extraordinary musical experiences by incorporating drama and choreography and making even the most familiar classical works feel new-minted by performing them entirely from memory.
In this eagerly anticipated return to Nottingham, Aurora brings a quartet of contrasting classics, beginning with Mozart’s zesty overture to his hit opera, The Marriage of Figaro, whose perceived revolutionary subtext initially got it banned in several countries. Elgar’s unstoppable Introduction and Allegro is the perfect showcase for Aurora’s fleet-footed strings and there are more violin fireworks when popular British soloist, Chloe Hanslip, walks the high wire in Prokofiev’s virtuosic Second Violin Concerto. Finally, Mendelssohn’s breezy, best-loved Symphony, the ‘Italian’, gets the Aurora treatment: an exhilarating journey, made without sheet music, joining the composer on his grand tour from Venice to Rome in 1830. Complete with Mediterranean sunshine, historic art and architecture, and traditional dances, it’s a joyous excursion, hurtling to a close with a raucous, irresistible saltarello.