Take a coach direct from Ashbourne to Nottingham for a concert by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra playing Nielsen, Grieg & Sibelius.

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.

Karl Nielsen’s bustling overture to his 1904 opera, Maskarade, launches this Nordic programme from the acclaimed partnership of Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, joined here by regular collaborator, Simon Trpceski, for Grieg’s evergreen Piano Concerto.  Composed when he was just 25, it’s an astonishingly accomplished blend of personal style with national musical identity, mixing Norwegian folk idioms with youthful solo writing that’s both brilliant and warmly lyrical.

Sibelius’s name is synonymous with starkly beautiful Nordic landscapes but he loved Italy and it was whilst enjoying a sun-drenched stay in the seaside town of Rapallo in 1901 that he first began his Second symphony. He struggled to complete the work and revised it several times but the finished article quickly enjoyed success in Finland and has since become his most popular symphony worldwide. His last major Romantic work, it’s driven by a heroic sense of purpose, its sinewy themes and steely climaxes leading to a glorious, hymn-like conclusion.