12th – 14th July 2024
Your chance to play Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony!
Applications are now open! Application Form is HERE!
For all information check out the Winter Orchestra Workshop page.
Winter Orchestra Workshop!
2024 Rehearsals start on Friday 9th February.
The full rehearsal schedule for the year, details of rehearsal times and how to get to the rehearsal venue can be found on the menu to the left of the page.
The Application Form and details of how to join are also available from the menu on the left.
2023 End of Year Concert Recording
The 2023 End of Year Concert may be heard and downloaded in the Galleries.
2023 End of Year Concert
Friday 1st December 2023 at 7:30pm
2024 Residential Summer String Camp
Application Form is now available: Here!
Sunday 7th to Saturday 13th January
2023 Winter Recordings
The 2023 Mid Year Concert and 2023 Winter Orchestra Workshop may be heard in the Galleries.
The main work of the 2023 Winter Orchestra Workshop was Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6. This has five movements, but the last three run together without a break:
- Allegro “Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute” (“Merry gathering of country folk.”)
- Allegro “Gewitter, Sturm” (“Thunder, Storm”)
- Allegretto “Hirtengesang. Frohe und dankbare Gefühle nach dem Sturm.” (“Shepherd’s song. Cheerful and thankful feelings after the storm.”)
The track containing these three continuous movements is 21 minutes and 18 seconds long. This is the longest single stretch of playing in the LYCO’s archives. The previous longest was at the 2019 Winter Orchestra Workshop. There, the track containing the final two movements of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 runs for 15 minutes and 32 seconds.
As of July 2023, the shortest track in the LYCO archives is from the 2015 Mid Year Concert. The Piccolo Strings played from Stephen Chin’s Sixteen Sensations, with a performance of the seventh movement, Fairy Floss, completed in 31 seconds.