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Night (Wyndham’s, 19 March to 8 June). Jeremy Herrin, of Best of Enemies,
directs. Susannah Clapp

Classical

Enjoy big names and big works at a reborn Bristol venue

The Kronos Quartet will play at the Bristol Beacon this month. Photograph: Lenny Gonzalez

After a five-year transformation, Bristol Beacon, the former Colston Hall, continues its
opening season with a sparse but high-quality programme of orchestral concerts (on
average three a month), including the excellent Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Spring season visitors include the London Symphony Orchestra with Simon Rattle
(works by Gershwin, John Adams, with pianist Kirill Gerstein, 4 March), and Antonio
Pappano (works by Ravel and Wynton Marsalis, with trumpeter Alison Balsom, 12
April) and, later in the season, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hallé and more.
One unmissable highlight: the Kronos Quartet, on the American group’s 50th
anniversary tour, playing Steve Reich’s Triple Quartet, with UK premieres by Angélique
Kidjo and Sun Ra/Terry Riley (18 January). Also worth catching: the Royal Northern
Sinfonia with their rising star principal conductor, Dinis Sousa, in Mozart’s Clarinet
Concerto (soloist Julian Bliss), Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony and Beethoven’s
Symphony No 3, “Eroica” (22 February). Fiona Maddocks

Dance

Celebrate the classics and revivals of recent triumphs