We had expected that Shea Lolin would conduct the Bloomsbury Woodwind Ensemble as it performs a collection of scores invoking a strong sense of narrative - but Covid-19 has scuppered our plans. We hope to be able to put on the concert later in the year.

Poets, artists, composers and story-tellers have long found the forest to be a source of intrigue which had helped to inspire the programme that was going to include:

• Richard Wagner Siegfried – Forest Murmurs
• Antonín Dvo?ák From the Bohemian Forest – Silent Woods 7
• Arnold Bax November Woods
• Johann Strauss II Tales from the Vienna Woods
• Felix Mendelssohn Farewell to the Forest
• Samuel Barber Vanessa – Under the Willow Tree