What an amazing day! 75 musicians (including a handful of ex-Lydians) performing our most ambitious programme to date. It was a great pleasure to welcome back Nils Schweckendiek to conduct Rimsky Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnol, Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra and Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. A professional DVD was made of the concert - and we hope to have some clips on the website soon. We gave our thanks to Anthony Daniel, who stood down as chairman after 14 years, and a fond farewell to Helga Merrick - a Lydian 'institution' !