WHERE better to be transported for a summer concert than sunny Spain?

As part of the Basingstoke Festival programme, Basingstoke Symphony Orchestra presents an exciting concert of music inspired by the sights, sounds and dances of this wonderful country.

See the performance at The Anvil on Saturday, June 20.

Whitchurch-based guitarist Vincent Lindsey-Clark will be the soloist for Rodrigo's ever-popular Concierto de Aranjuez.

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Inspired by the gardens at the Palacio Real de Aranjuez, the music transports the listener to another place and time through the evocation of the sounds of nature.

Chabrier's España is probably his most famous composition and inaugurated the vogue for hispanically-flavoured music which found further expression in Debussy's Iberia and Ravel's Rapsodie Espagnole.

De Falla's Ritual Fire Dance is a movement from his ballet The Bewitched Love, depicting a young Andalusian gypsy girl who performs the dance to exorcise the ghost of her dead husband.

The music from Bizet's Carmen needs no introduction and the orchestra will perform both suites.

Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnol is considered to be a showcase for the composer's brilliant orchestration, containing the finest examples of orchestral virtuosity he ever produced.

To set the mood, you are also invited to enjoy a pre-concert Spanish wine sampling session.

Tickets for the wine sampling (£1.50) are limited to the first 100 people and need to be booked at the same time as the concert ticket. The samplings begin at 6.30pm.

Tickets for the concert, priced £21, £17 and £12, are available from the box office on 01256 844244 or anvilarts.org.uk.