The City Of York Guildhall Orchestra

The York Guildhall Orchestra concludes its 33rd season with its final visit to the symphonies of Gustav Mahler. We shall perform his last symphony as he left it - an incomplete work with just one movement. This has been an epic journey over a number of years and the orchestra has grown in maturity during the process. Of the ninth symphony (May 2012), the orchestra's conductor Simon Wright said that it was some of the finest ocrhestral playing he had ever conducted - and some of the best string sound the players had ever produced. Praise indeed of what is basically an amateur group.