Take a coach direct from Ashbourne to Nottingham for a concert by The Halle Orchestra, playing Sibelius, Shostakovich & Beethoven.

You pay only for your concert ticket - the coach is free. Pick up from the bus station at 5:30 and return around 10 minutes after the concert ends, which varies but should normally get you back to Ashbourne before 11:00. Also picks up from Brailsford at 5:45.

Adult tickets from £21.50. Please contact the box office on 0115 989 5555 to book or email trch.boxoffice@nottinghamcity.gov.uk .

Three contrasting moods frame this Hallé concert, beginning with the hushed solemnity of Sibelius’s Andante Festivo, originally written to mark the 25^th anniversary of the Saynatsalo plywood mill but later a mainstay of dignified Finnish state occasions, including the composer’s own funeral.

Steely defiance defines Shostakovich’s 1^st Cello Concerto, performed here by leading German cellist Jan Vogler. Although he wrote it during the Soviet thaw under Kruschev, Shostakovich drew deeply on his memories of years of harassment suffered during the Stalin years, filling it with searing energy and keening melodies.

Beethoven’s Third Symphony confounded the expectations of its first listeners, many of whom were perplexed by its unprecedented length and emotional extremes. But its epic narrative of heroic struggle, as Beethoven broke away decisively from Haydn and Mozart to herald the beginning of the Romantic age, has lost none of its potency over two centuries later.