Autumn Concerts

Saturday 10 October 2026, 7:30pm

St Mark’s Church, Harrogate, HG2 8AY

Sunday 11th October 2026, 3:00pm

St John the Baptist Church, Easingwold, YO61 3JU

Tickets for both concert can be purchased below. Adults £15 | Students £5 | Under 16s Free

Schumann – Violin Concerto
Soloist: Richard Fletcher

Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition (excerpts)

Join the Harrogate Philharmonic Orchestra for a concert bringing together Schumann’s deeply expressive Violin Concerto and the vivid musical storytelling of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Richard Fletcher joins the orchestra as soloist for Schumann’s Violin Concerto, one of the composer’s final major works. Written in 1853 but not performed publicly until more than 80 years later, it is an intense and compelling work, moving between moments of drama, tenderness and lyrical beauty.

The orchestra then turns to Mussorgsky’s colourful Pictures at an Exhibition, music inspired by a visit to an exhibition of works by the artist Viktor Hartmann. Each movement creates a striking musical picture, from bustling marketplaces and mysterious catacombs to the grandeur of The Great Gate of Kyiv.

With a wonderful soloist and some of the most atmospheric and imaginative music in the orchestral repertoire, this promises to be a concert full of contrast, colour and drama.