FORGET a dinner of disappointment for two and wilting roses on the most romantically pressurised day of the year, St Valentine’s Day.

Instead, why not join in the love-in otherwise known as the York Guildhall Orchestra’s Valentine’s Day Special Concert at York Barbican that evening?

“Our next concert happens to fall on February 14, so of course we could not pass up that opportunity,” says conductor Simon Wright.

“It’s all going very well in rehearsals for a concert that will feature various pieces associated with joys and travails of love, both unrequited or otherwise.”

Saturday’s 7.30pm Valentine programme will include Prelude & Liebestod fromTristan und Isolde; Mozart’s Andante from the Piano Concerto No. 21, otherwise known as Elvira Madigan; Elgar’s Salut d’amour and Puccini’s Che gelida manina, Si, mi chiamano Mimi and O Soave fanciulla from La Boheme.

Further works will be Prokofiev’s Montagues & Capulets and Romeo At The Grave Of Juliet from Romeo & Juliet; Mozart’s Ch’io mi scordi di te; Bernstein’s Maria, One Hand, One Heart; Somewhere and Tonight from West Side Story and Ravel’s Bolero.

Joining the Guildhall Orchestra will be three soloists, pianist Rebecca Taylor, soprano Céline Forrest and tenor Oliver Johnston, who are all making a name for themselves on the performing platform. Rebecca won the Accompanist Prize at the 2014 Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards at the Wigmore Hall in London; Céline has won a place through to finals of the Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 2015, representing Wales; and Oliver has been performing at Garsington Opera and at Glyndebourne in concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Tickets are selling well, so the balcony has been opened for sale.

Box office: 0844 854 2757 or visit yorkbarbican.co.uk