Take a coach direct from Ashbourne to Nottingham for a concert by The Halle Orchestra, playing Rachmaninov, Shostakovich and Elgar.

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 .

A majestic fanfare opens our new season, as the trumpets of Shostakovich’s 1954 Festive Overture herald five-minutes of joyful high spirits.  Its dutiful optimism, composed in just three days in celebration of the 37^th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, would no doubt have felt forced to him, having been harried by the Soviet regime for several years. But it’s hard to resist the overture’s blistering momentum and the soaring nobility of its big tune.

The mood of Elgar’s Cello Concerto could hardly be more different; his last major work is a poignant farewell to a world blown apart by the Great War. The acclaimed Norwegian cellist Truls Mørk is our soloist in this emotive dialogue between soloist and orchestra.

Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony was a major personal achievement given the critical mauling his First had received, but he was in a positive mood when he wrote his second, with a settled home life and space to think whilst on a retreat in Dresden. The most expansive of his symphonic works, it has drama and passion to match its epic span. At its heart is one of the most rapt slow movements ever heard, sharply contrasted by a wildly inventive scherzo and the exhilarating energy of the finale.