JAMES ROSS:
NEXT U.K. PERFORMANCES
7 NOVEMBER 2010 7.30PM
TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE
Beethoven
Overture: Egmont
M. Sutton
Violin Concerto
Brahms
Serenade No.1
Christos Kokkinos, violin
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra
tickets@wgcms.org.uk / 01707 322324
13 NOVEMBER 2010 7.30PM
ST.
JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
R. Strauss
Four Last Songs
Mahler
Symphony No.1
Sara Jonsson, soprano
Sidcup Symphony
Orchestra
Tickets: 020 8300 3268 / 01322 557458
4 DECEMBER 2010 7.30PM
HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Brahms
Double Concerto
J.S. Bach
Christmas Oratorio (excerpts)
Jonathan Strange, violin; Lesley Shrigley-Jones, 'cello
Haslemere
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Tickets: 01428 642161 /
www.haslemerehall.com
11 DECEMBER 2010 7.30PM
ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Haydn
'Cello Concerto in D
Pavlos Carvalho, 'cello
Welwyn Garden City
Orchestra and Chorus
tickets@wgcms.org.uk / 01707 322324
2011
19 JANUARY 2011 7.30PM
TOWNLEY HALL, BEXLEYHEATH
New Year's Concert
Sidcup Symphony
Orchestra
Tickets: 020 8300 3268 / 01322 557458
5 MARCH 2011 7.30PM
HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Brahms
Requiem
Haslemere
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Tickets: 01428 642161 /
www.haslemerehall.com
12 MARCH 2011 7.30PM
ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Holst
Short Festival Te Deum
Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music
Vaughan Williams
Symphony No.5
Welwyn Garden City
Orchestra and Chorus
tickets@wgcms.org.uk / 01707 322324
19 MARCH 2011 7.30PM
ST.
JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Mussorgsky
Night on a Bare Mountain
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto (t.b.c.)
Shostakovich Symphony
No.12, 'The Year 1917'
Sidcup Symphony
Orchestra
Tickets: 020 8300 3268 / 01322 557458
22 MARCH 2011 7.45PM
WOODHALL LANE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Schumann
Symphony No.1, Spring
Bruch
Symphony No.3
Welwyn Garden City
Orchestra
10 APRIL 2011 7.30PM
BLACKHEATH CONCERT HALLS
Sidcup
Symphony Orchestra
Tickets: 020 8300 3268 / 01322 557458
7 MAY 2011 7.30PM
HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Verdi
Overture; 'Va Pensiero': Nabucco
Puccini
Messa di Gloria
Haslemere
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Tickets: 01428 642161 /
www.haslemerehall.com
22 MAY 2011 7.00PM
ST.
JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Nielsen
Helios Overture
concerto t.b.c.
Sibelius
Symphony No.5
Sidcup Symphony
Orchestra
Tickets: 020 8300 3268 / 01322 557458
25 JUNE 2011 7.30PM
ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Haydn
The Creation
Welwyn Garden City
Orchestra and Chorus
tickets@wgcms.org.uk / 01707 322324
2 JULY 2011 7.30PM
venue t.b.c.
Summer Proms Concert, including:
Elgar
Wand of Youth Suites
Delius
The Walk to 'The Paradise Garden''
Walton
Henry V
Sidcup Symphony
Orchestra
Tickets: 020 8300 3268 / 01322 557458
12 NOVEMBER 2011 7.30PM
ST.
JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Sidcup Symphony
Orchestra
Tickets: 020 8300 3268 / 01322 557458
3 DECEMBER 2011 7.30PM
HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Haslemere
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Tickets: 01428 642161 /
www.haslemerehall.com
17 DECEMBER 2011 7.30PM
ST.
JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Sidcup Symphony
Orchestra
Tickets: 020 8300 3268 / 01322 557458
3 MARCH 2012 7.30PM
HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Haslemere
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Tickets: 01428 642161 /
www.haslemerehall.com
19 MARCH 2012 7.30PM
ST.
JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP or
BLACKHEATH CONCERT HALLS
(tbc)
Sidcup Symphony
Orchestra
Tickets: 020 8300 3268 / 01322 557458
5 MAY 2012 7.30PM
HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Haslemere
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Tickets: 01428 642161 /
www.haslemerehall.com
19 MAY 2012 7.30PM
ST.
JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Sidcup Symphony
Orchestra
Tickets: 020 8300 3268 / 01322 557458
7 JULY 2012 7.30PM
ST.
JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Sidcup Symphony
Orchestra
Tickets: 020 8300 3268 / 01322 557458
PREVIOUS 2010 UK CONCERTS
1 JANUARY 2010 7.00PM
ST. ALBANS ABBEY
Tchaikovsky Capriccio
italien
Khachaturian Adagio:
Spartacus
Respighi
The Pines of Rome
Verdi
Overture: La forza del destino
Zimmer
Gladiator
Mahler
Adagietto, Symphony No.5
J.
Strauss II
Overture: A Night in Venice
J. Strauss I
Radetzky March
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
12 JANUARY 2010 7.45PM
WOODHALL LANE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Dvořák
Symphony No.5
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.3, Polish
Welwyn Garden City
Orchestra
6 FEBRUARY 2010 7.30PM
ST. CHRISTOPHER'S CHURCH, HASLEMERE
Schubert
Overture: Rosamunde
Haydn
'Cello Concerto in C
Beethoven
Symphony No.1
Andrew Taylor, 'cello
Haslemere
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
6 MARCH 2010 7.30PM
HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Haydn
The Creation
Jacqueline Dias, soprano
Stephen Brown, tenor
Jon Stainsby, baritone
Haslemere
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
13 MARCH 2010 7.30PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH,
ST. ALBANS
Rimsky-Korsakov
Overture: May Night
Dvořák
'Cello Concerto *
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.4
* Michael Wigram, 'cello
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
20 MARCH 2010 7.30PM
CHISLEHURST AND SIDCUP GRAMMAR SCHOOL HALL
Mozart
Overture: Die Zauberflöte
Schumann
'Cello Concerto *
Dvořák
Symphony No.6
* Minat Lyons (London Symphony Orchestra), 'cello
Sidcup Symphony
Orchestra
27 MARCH 2010
7.30PM
ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
de Falla
Suite No.1: The Three-Cornered Hat
Dvořák
Violin Romance in F minor *
Bartók
Violin Rhapsody No.1 *
Duruflé Requiem
**
* Andrew Watkinson (Endellion String
Quartet), violin
** Sara Jonsson and Thomas West, soloists
Welwyn Garden City
Orchestra and Chorus
4 APRIL 2010
7.30PM
HIGH STREET METHODIST
CHURCH, HARPENDEN
M. Haydn
Symphony in G, P.16
J.S. Bach
Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor
Brahms
Serenade No.2
Hattie Webster, flute
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
8 MAY 2010 7.30PM
HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Holst
Short Festival Te Deum
Mussorgsky
Night on a Bare Mountain
Grieg
Scenes from Per Gynt
Villa-Lobos Fantasia
for Soprano Saxophone and Chamber Orchestra
Vaughan Williams
Serenade to Music
Mozart
Kyrie
Haydn
Te Deum in C (Maria-Theresa)
David Wigram, saxophone
Haslemere
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
15 MAY 2010
7.30PM
ST.
JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Ravel
Suite: Mother Goose
Poulenc
Concert champętre
*
Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3, Organ
*
Heather Slade-Lipkin, harpsichord
Paul Isom, organ
Sidcup Symphony
Orchestra
12 JUNE
2010 7.30PM
ST. ALBANS ABBEY
Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man *
Hanson
A Song for Human Rights *
Mahler
Symphony No.2, The Resurrection
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
Sara Jonsson, soprano
Jeanette Ager, mezzo-soprano
St. Albans Chamber Choir (John Gibbons, director / conductor*)
Watford Philharmonic Society Chorus (Terry Edwards, director)
26 JUNE 2010
7.30PM
ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Massenet
Ballet Music: Le Cid
R. Strauss
Serenade for Winds, op.7
Walton
Henry V
Fauré
Requiem
Jacqueline Dias, soprano
Jordan Bell, baritone
Welwyn Garden City
Orchestra and Chorus
27 JUNE 2010 7.30PM
BLACKHEATH CONCERT HALLS,
LONDON
Wagner
Overture: The Flying Dutchman
Sidcup Symphony
Orchestra
10 JULY 2010 7.30PM
ST.
JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
J. Strauss II Overture: Die Fledermaus
Weber Invitation to the Dance (orch. Berlioz)
Grgin
Clarinet Concertino
Enescu Romanian Rhapsody
No.1
Lehar
Overture: The Merry Widow
J. Strauss II
The Blue Danube Waltz / Thunder and Lightning Polka
Andrija Mincic, clarinet
Sidcup Symphony
Orchestra
Tickets: 020 8300 3268 / 01322 557458
11 JULY 2010
3.30PM
MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL, ST. ALBANS
'Around the World in Eighty Minutes'
Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
Bizet
'Farandole', L'Arlésienne
Tchaikovsky
'Arabian, Chinese and Russian (Trepak) Dances', The Nutcracker
Mussorgsky 'Gopak',
Sorochintsy Fair
Grieg
'In the Hall of the Mountain-King', Per Gynt
Beethoven
'Turkish March', The Ruins of Athens
Brahms
Hungarian March No.5
H. Zimmer
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Sibelius
Finlandia
J. Williams
Star Wars
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
Steve Weatherill, animateur
Tickets: 01727 857422 /
tickets@saso.org.uk
14 JULY 2010
7.30PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Weber
Clarinet Concerto No.1
Handel
'Ombra mai fu', Xerxes
F. David
Trombone Concerto
C. Crawley
Impulse for Horn and Orchestra
Donizetti
Cor Anglais Concertino in G
Grieg
Piano Concerto
Ian Rogers, clarinet
Alan McGlyn, tenor
Keith Marr, trombone
Chris Crawley, horn
Jeremy Finlay, cor anglais
Tim Pryce, piano
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
2009 U.K. PERFORMANCES
1 JANUARY 2009 7.00PM
ST. ALBANS ABBEY
Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
Adams
The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Bernstein Symphonic Dances:
West Side Story
J. Strauss II Waltz:
Letter from America
J.P.
Sousa
March: Liberty Bell
Alford
March: Colonel Bogey
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
Anna Le Hair, piano
20 JANUARY 2009 7.45PM
WOODHALL LANE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Franck
Symphony
Borodin
Symphony No.2
Welwyn Garden City
Orchestra
28 FEBRUARY 2009 7.30PM
TOWNLEY HALL, BEXLEYHEATH
Beethoven
Overture: Egmont
Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Mendelssohn Symphony No.3, Scottish
Harry Penny, clarinet (Royal
College of Music)
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
7 MARCH 2009 7.30PM
HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Borodin
Overture: Prince Igor
Sibelius
Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5
Anna-Liisa Bezrodny, violin
Haslemere
Symphony Orchestra
14 MARCH 2009 7.30PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Nielsen
Helios Overture
Sibelius
Violin Concerto
Elgar
Symphony No.1
Anna-Liisa Bezrodny, violin
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
28 MARCH 2009 7.30PM
METHODIST CHURCH, WEYHILL, HASLEMERE, SURREY
J.S.
Bach Johannes-Passion
Stephen Brown, tenor: Evangelist
Sara Jonsson, soprano
Jon Stainsby, baritone: Jesus
James Ballance, baritone: Pilate
John Jackson, bass: Petrus
Haslemere
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
1 APRIL 2009 6.30PM
SIR JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL, YORK
Byrd
Ave Verum Corpus
J.S. Bach
Air: Orchestral Suite No.3
Mozart
Ave Verum Corpus
Mozart
Divertimento in F, K.213
Bruckner
Locus iste
Elgar
Ave Verum Corpus
John Ellis, organ
Royal College of Paediatricians Chorus and Orchestra
4 APRIL
2009
7.30PM
ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WELYWN GARDEN CITY
Sibelius
Finlandia
Sibelius
The Captive Queen
Kodály Dances of Galanta
[Dvořák Biblical
Songs] *
Dvořák
Te Deum
Sara
Jonsson, soprano
Thomas West, baritone
* Crispin Lewis, conductor
Welwyn Garden City
Orchestra and Chorus
25 APRIL 2009
7.30PM
HIGH STREET METHODIST
CHURCH, HARPENDEN
Stravinsky
Concerto in E-flat: Dumbarton Oaks
Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante for Winds
Haydn
Symphony No.101, Clock
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
9 MAY 2009
7.30PM
ST.
JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Dvořák
'Cello Concerto
Suk
Symphony No.2, Asrael
Minat Lyons, 'cello (London
Symphony Orchestra)
Sidcup Symphony
Orchestra
16 MAY 2009 7.30PM
HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Haslemere Festival Tennyson Concert
Elgar
The Wand of Youth Suite No.1
Sullivan
In Memoriam
Stanford
The Revenge
Elgar
There is Sweet Music
Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs *
Jon Stainsby, baritone *
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
20 JUNE 2009 7.30PM
ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Walton
Crown Imperial
Elgar
Froissart
Vaughan Williams
The Wasps
Delius
Summer Night on the River
Stanford
The Revenge
Welwyn Garden City
Orchestra and Chorus
27 JUNE 2009
7.30PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Hindemith
Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Weber
Mozart
Clarinet Concerto
Brahms
Symphony No.2
Koren Wilmer, clarinet
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
4 JULY 2009 7.30PM
TOWNLEY HALL, KENT: ANGLO-AMERICAN PROM
Bernstein
Overture: Candide
Gershwin
An American in Paris
Holst
A Fugal Concerto
Smyth
Overture: The Wreckers
Souza
March: Liberty Bell
P.R. Buttall
The Lone Arranger
Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance Marches No.2 and No.1
Sue McLeod, flute; Kevin England,
oboe
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
12 JULY 2009
3.30PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Children's Concert: Heroes and
Villains
J. Williams
Superman Returns (arr. Ottman / Lopez)
H. Zimmer
Gladiator (arr. Wasson)
J. Barry et al.
Themes from 007 (arr. Custer)
A. Lloyd-Webber The Phantom of the Opera:
Selections (arr. Custer)
Patterson
Little Red Riding Hood
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
15 JULY 2009
7.30PM
UNITED REFORMED
CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola
Huë
Fantasia for Flute and Orchestra
Hummel
Trumpet Concerto
Schumann Concertstück
für
vier Hörner und Orchester
Gregson Tuba Concerto
Jenny Wigram, violin; David Wigram,
viola
Theresa Cory, flute
Tony Hindley, trumpet
Chris Ludwig, tuba
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
1 NOVEMBER 2009 7.30PM
TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE
Schubert
Overture: Alphonso und Estrella
Mozart
Oboe Concerto
Schumann
Symphony No.3, Rhenish
Kevin England, oboe
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra
tickets@wgcms.org.uk / 01707 322324
14 NOVEMBER 2009 7.30PM
ST.
JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Weber
Overture: Der Freischütz
Wagner
'Dich Teure Halle', Tannhaüser
Wagner
'Elsa's Dream', Lohengrin
Wagner
'Der Männer Sippe', Die Walküre
Brahms
Symphony No.4
Sara Jonsson, soprano
(Finalist, Bayreuth Bursary Competition 2009)
Sidcup Symphony
Orchestra
Tickets: 020 8300 3268 / 01322 557458
12 DECEMBER 2009 7.30PM
ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Vaughan Williams Benedicite
Villa-Lobos
Guitar Concerto
Saint-Saëns
Oratorio de Noël
Carols for Choir, Audience and Orchestra
Katherine Bagshawe, soprano; Kathy Bell, mezzo-soprano; Rhonda
Browne, contralto
Jonathan Todd, tenor; Jon Stainsby, baritone
David Massey, guitar (BBC Young Musician
of the Year finalist)
Welwyn Garden City
Orchestra and Chorus
tickets@wgcms.org.uk / 01707 322324
2008 U.K. CONCERTS
1 JANUARY 2008 7.00PM
ST. ALBANS ABBEY
Mendelssohn Overture:
The
Hebrides
MacCunn
The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Debussy
Marche écossaise
Berlioz
Overture: Roy Roy
Verdi Macbeth: Ballo (Act III)
Arnold
Four Scottish Dances
Maxwell Davies An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
J. Strauss I
Radetzky March
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
26 JANUARY 2008 7.30PM
ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY
Schubert
Overture: Die Zauberharfe
Schumann, Mendelssohn, Elgar
Part Songs
Dvořák
Symphony No.6
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra
8 & 9 FEBRUARY 2008 7.30PM
NORTH
WALL ARTS CENTRE, SUMMERTOWN, OXFORD
15, 20 & 22 FEBRUARY 2008 8PM
HERTFORD
COLLEGE CHAPEL, OXFORD
Britten
The Turn of the Screw
The Oxford Opera
Company
Christ Church Festival Orchestra
1 MARCH 2008 7.30PM
HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Wagner Faust
Overture
Chaminade Flute Concertino
Poulenc
Flute Sonata (orch. Berkeley)
Berlioz La
Damnation de Faust - scenes
Emma Williams,
flute;
Adam
Tunnicliffe, tenor;
Thomas West, baritone
Haslemere Musical Society Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
8 MARCH 2008 7.30PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Berlioz
Overture: Les Francs-Juges
Brahms
Double Concerto
Dvorák
Symphony No.8
Guy Johnston, 'cello; Magnus Johnston, violin
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
15 MARCH 2008 7.30PM
CHRIST CHURCH, BEXLEYHEATH
Verdi
'Morrň': Un ballo in maschera
Tchaikovsky Waltz: Eugene
Onegin
Puccini
'Vissi d'arte', Tosca
Leoncavallo
Scena:
Silvio! A questora ..., Pagliacci
Sibelius
Symphony No.1
Sara
Jonsson, soprano; Jordan Bell, baritone
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
19 APRIL 2008
7.30PM
HIGH STREET METHODIST
CHURCH, HARPENDEN
Albinoni
Adagio for Organ and Strings
J.S.
Bach
Concerto for Violin and Oboe
R.
Strauss
Duet Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon
Poulenc
Flute Sonata (orch. L. Berkeley)
Schubert
Symphony No.5
Jennifer Wigram, violin; Mike Brien, oboe
Koren Wilmer, clarinet; Peter Lyndley, bassoon
Geraldine Marshall, flute
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
Tickets: 01727 857422 /
tickets@saso.org.uk
26 APRIL 2008 7.30PM
ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WGC
Beethoven
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Mozart
Concert Aria: Bella mia fiamma, K.528
Haydn
Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo
Beethoven
Violin Concerto
Andrew
Watkinson, violin;
Sara Jonsson,
soprano
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra
and Chorus
Tickets: 01707 886199
3 MAY
2008
8.00PM
SHELDONIAN THEATRE, OXFORD
Concert in aid of the UK Friends of Sunera
Foundation of Sri Lanka:
Mozart
Symphony no.31, Paris
Mozart
Violin Concerto No.5 in A, K.219
Mozart
Act II (staged): Le nozze di Figaro
Mandhira de
Saram, violin
The
Oxford Opera Company
Christ Church
Festival Orchestra
Tickets: Ł5-Ł35: Oxford Playhouse: 01865 305305 /
www.ticketsoxford.com
10 MAY 2008
7.30PM
HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Sibelius
Karelia Suite
Sibelius
The Captive Queen
Tchaikovsky Scenes from Eugene Onegin
Sara
Jonsson, soprano;
Maciek
O'Shea, baritone
Haslemere Musical Society Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
17 MAY 2008
7.30PM
TOWNLEY HALL, KENT
Mendelssohn
Overture: A
Midsummer Nights Dream
Mendelssohn Violin
Concerto in E minor
Beethoven
Symphony No.3, Eroica
John Hooper, violin
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
24 MAY 2008
9.30PM
DIVINITY SCHOOLS, BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD
Ball Performance, including J.S. Bach, Orchestral
Suite No.1; Tchaikovsky, Waltz: Eugene Onegin; Shostakovich,
2nd Waltz: Jazz Suite No.2; Lama, Silenzio cantatore, waltzes, foxtrot, quick-step,
one-step and
tango.
Christ Church
Festival Orchestra
14 JUNE 2008
7.30PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Alexander Flood Récit for Orchestra
Mahler
Symphony No.6
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
Tickets: 01727 857422 /
tickets@saso.org.uk
28 JUNE 2008 7.30PM
ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, PARKWAY, WGC
Handel
Judas Maccabaeus
Jacqueline Dias, soprano
Nadia Bishara, mezzo-soprano
Jonathan Todd, tenor
Desmund Turner, bass-baritone
Neil Bell, continuo
Welwyn Garden City
Orchestra and Chorus
29 JUNE 2008
7.30PM
ST. MARGARET'S CHURCH, LEE
Wagner
Prelude to Act I:
Die
Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
5 JULY 2008
7.30PM
TOWNLEY HALL, KENT: SUMMER PROMS CONCERT
Wagner
Prelude to Act I:
Die
Meistersinger von Nürnberg
James Langley The Coloured Counties
Poulenc
Les Biches
Vaughan Williams
The Wasps
Smyth
Overture: The Boatswain's Mate
Wood
Sea Songs
Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
Parry
Jerusalem
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
6 JULY 2008
3.30PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Children's Carnival Concert:
Fucik Entry of the Gladiators
Dvorák Carnival Overture
Satie
Parade
Saint-Saëns Carnival
of the Animals
Offenbach
Overture: Orpheus in the Underworld
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
9 JULY 2008
7.30PM
UNITED REFORMED
CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante for Winds
Vivaldi
Concerto for Two Trumpets
Sibelius
The Swan of Tuenola
Albrechtsberger Trombone Concerto
M. Horvit
Brass Quintet Concerto
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
Tony Hindley and Bill Rumford, trumpets
Jeremy Finlay, cor anglais
Keith Marr, trombone
18 OCTOBER 2008 7.30PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Sibelius
Finlandia
Crawley
Aspects of Eden: first performance
Shostakovich Symphony No.5
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
26 OCTOBER 2008 7.30PM
TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE
Schubert Overture
in the Italian Style in D
Schubert
Ballet Music: Rosamunde
Haydn
Trumpet Concerto
Beethoven Symphony No.8
Simon Desbruslais, trumpet
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra
8 NOVEMBER 2008 7.30PM
TOWNLEY HALL, BEXLEYHEATH
Chabrier
Overture: Gwendoline
Debussy
Prélude
ŕ L'Aprčs-midi d'un faune
Dukas
L'Apprenti sorcier
Berlioz
Harold in Italy
Don
Ehrlich, viola (San
Francisco Symphony Orchestra)
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
6 DECEMBER 2008 7.30PM
HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Vaughan Williams
Overture: The Wasps
Beethoven
Symphony No.8
Fauré Requiem
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
13 DECEMBER 2008 7.30PM
ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, SIDCUP
Hungarian Christmas Concert:
J.
Strauss
Overture: Der Ziguenerbaron
Kodály
Intermezzo: Háry János
Bartók
Hungarian Pictures
Monti Czardas
Erkel
Overture: Hunyadi László
Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
Brahms
Hungarian Dance No.5
Berlioz
Hungarian Dance: La Damnation de Faust
Nigel Sharp, violin
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
2007 U.K. CONCERTS
1 JANUARY 2007 7.00 PM
ST. ALBANS
ABBEY
Mozart
Overture: The Marriage of Figaro
Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio espagnol
de Falla
Suite No.2: The Three-Cornered Hat
Ravel
Boléro
Chabrier
Espańa
Waldteufel Espańa Waltz
J. Strauss II Blue Danube
Waltz
J. Strauss I
Radetzky March
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
10 MARCH 2007 7.30 PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Brahms
Academic Festival Overture
R. Strauss Horn Concerto
No.2
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6
Stephen Stirling, horn
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
17 MARCH 2007 7.30PM
TOWNLEY HALL, KENT
Elgar
Cockaigne Overture
Finzi
Violin Concerto
Elgar
Symphony No.1
Cerys Jones, violin
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
20 MARCH 2007 7.45PM
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.1,
Winter
Daydreams
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.2, Little
Russian
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra
open session
29 MARCH 2007 6.30PM
SIR JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL, YORK
Mozart
Posthorn Serenade
J.S.
Bach
Magnificat
in D
John Ellis, organ; Ros Jones, soprano
Royal College of Paediatricians Chorus and Orchestra
2 APRIL 2007 12-6PM
CONCERT ROOM,
ROYAL ACADEMY OF
MUSIC, LONDON
Nirmali Fenn
Psychotic
Episode and Restlessness: recording
Sara
Jonsson, soprano
Tom Hankey and Cerys Jones, violins;
Nicholas
Bootiman, viola; Ashok
Klouda, 'cello; Stuart Russell, bassoon; Peter McMullin, piano;
Kirsten Cowie, producer.
21 APRIL 2007 7.30PM
CHURCH OF ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL, OLNEY, BUCKS.
Mozart
Overture: The Marriage of Figaro
K. Templeman New Work for oboe and orchestra: first performance
Vaughan Williams
Oboe Concerto
Beethoven
Symphony No.3, Eroica
Karen Mason, oboe
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
12 MAY 2007 7.30PM
TOWNLEY HALL, KENT
Berlioz
Overture, Royal Hunt and Storm: Les Troyens
Elgar
'Cello Concerto
Brahms
Symphony No.2
Ben Stevens, 'cello
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
2 JUNE 2007 8.00PM
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
Sibelius
Finlandia
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6
Soojin Han, violin
Christ Church Festival Orchestra
9 JUNE 2007 7.30PM
ST. ALBANS
ABBEY
Shostakovich Festive Overture
Stravinsky The Rite of
Spring
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet
Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
with members of
City of
London Sinfonia
16 JUNE 2007
7.00PM
ST. MARY MAGDALENE, OXFORD
Elgar
From the Bavarian Highlands
Elgar
Spanish Serenade
Elgar
'As torrents in the summer': King Olaf
Elgar
Lux Aeterna
Elgar
The Banner of St. George
Anthony McCarthy, piano / organ
Chorus Mundi
23 JUNE 2007 7.30PM
ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Elgar
The Wand of Youth
Suites
Rodrigo
Fantasia para un gentilhombre
Sullivan
Trial by Jury
David Massey, guitar
(finalist, BBC Young Musician of the Year,
2006)
Welwyn Garden City Chorus and
Orchestra
1 JULY 2007
3.30PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
MONSTERS AND DINOSAURS CHILDREN'S CONCERT
Beethoven Overture: Prometheus
Grieg
'In the Hall of the Mountain King', Peer Gynt
Powell and Gregson-Williams
Shrek: Fairytale Opening and Transformation
John Williams Jurassic Park
Stravinsky Excerpts from
The Rite of Spring
Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
James Mayhew, narrator
4 JULY 2007
7.30PM
UNITED REFORMED
CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
CONCERTO EVENING
Gordon Jacob Rhapsody for Cor Anglais and Orchestra
Gilbert Vinter Hunter's Moon
Saint-Saëns 'Cello Concerto
No.1
Nielsen
Flute Concerto
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Jeremy Finlay, cor anglais; Anna Ludwig, horn;
David Goldsmith, violin; Clare Noble, 'cello; Theresa Cory, flute
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
14 JULY 2007 7.30PM
TOWNLEY HALL, KENT
Debussy Children's
Corner
Wagner
Prelude and Liebestod: Tristan und Isolde
Coleridge-Taylor
Petite Suite de Concert
Wood (arr.) Fantasia on British Sea
Songs
Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
Parry
Jerusalem
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
12 AUGUST 2007 5PM
ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH, ALFRISTON, WEST SUSSEX
CORIN LONG MEMORIAL CONCERT
Grieg
Holberg Suite
Tunde Jegede
Lamentation
Beethoven Symphony No.7
Alfriston Festival Orchestra (members of Royal Philharmonic and
London Philharmonic Orchestras).
Inquiries: alfristonsummermusic@yahoo.co.uk
17 AUGUST 2007 1PM
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
Vivaldi
'Summer', The Four Seasons
J.S.
Bach
Keyboard Concerto in D minor
Barber
Adagio for Strings
Britten
Simple Symphony
Youth Music
International String Orchestra
18 AUGUST 2007 7.30PM
WESLEY MEMORIAL CHAPEL, OXFORD
Britten
Simple Symphony
Elgar
Introduction and Allegro
Youth Music
International String Orchestra
11 SEPTEMBER 2007
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WOODHALL LANE, WELWYN GARDEN
CITY 7.45PM
Schumann
Symphony No.4
Brahms
Symphony No.2
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra
15 SEPTEMBER 2007
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Open rehearsal: 1.30-5.15PM. Performance: 6PM
Cedric
Peachey Three Fantasy Variations on 'The
River is Wide'
Robert Percy
Morton's Fork
Alexander Flood
Récit for Orchestra
Nirmali Fenn
Dark Tears
Keith
Marr
Sinfonietta, op.17
New Music Day with Professor
Paul Patterson
(Royal Academy of Music)
and members of
City
of London Sinfonia and
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
27 OCTOBER 2007 7.30PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Holst
Ballet Suite: The Perfect Fool
Debussy
Saxophone Rhapsody
Richard Payne Saxophone Concerto
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances
David Wigram, saxophone (Royal College of
Music)
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
7 NOVEMBER 2007 1.15PM
HERTFORD COLLEGE CHAPEL, OXFORD
Schoenberg
Pierrot
Lunaire
Sara Jonsson, soprano
The Proteus Ensemble: Gaelyn Pilmoor, flute / piccolo; Edward Littleton,
clarinet / bass clarinet; Elinor White, violin / viola; David
Whitaker, 'cello; Peter McMullin, piano
10 NOVEMBER 2007 7.30PM
TOWNLEY HALL, KENT
Mussorgsky
Dawn over the Moscow River: Prelude,
Khovanshchina
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Mussorgsky Entracte and
Dance of The Persian Slave Girls,
Khovanshchina
Stravinsky
Suite: The Firebird (1919)
Dmitri
Torchinsky, violin
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
11 NOVEMBER 2007 7.30PM
TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE
Mozart
Overture: La Clemenza di Tito
Delius
A Song before Sunrise
Weber
Clarinet Concerto No.1 in F minor
Haydn
Symphony No.104, London
Angela Crispe, clarinet
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra
8 DECEMBER 2007 7.30PM
HASLEMERE HALL, SURREY
Weber
Overture: Euryanthe
Vivaldi Gloria
Dvorák
Symphony No.8
Bruckner Psalm 150
Jeanette
Gallant, soprano
Nadia Bishara, mezzo-soprano
Haslemere Musical Society Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
15 DECEMBER 2007 7.30PM
CHRIST CHURCH, BEXLEYHEATH, KENT
Rossini
Overture: Il barbiere
di
Siviglia
Chabrier
Espańa
de Falla
Suite No.2:
El sombrero de tres picos
Bizet
Carmen Suites (selection)
Waldteufel
Espańa Waltz
Anderson
Sleigh Ride
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
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2006 U.K. CONCERTS
2 JANUARY 2006 7.00PM
ST. ALBANS
ABBEY: NEW YEAR'S CONCERT
Stravinsky
Fireworks
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
Borodin
Polovtsian Dances
Tchaikovsky
Waltz and Polonaise, Eugene Onegin
J. Strauss
II
Thunder and Lightning Polka
J. Strauss
I
Radetzky March
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
18 FEBRUARY 2006 8.00PM
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
Wagner
Overture: Der fliegende Holländer
Ravel Piano Concerto
in G
Brahms
Symphony No.4
Tom Wood, piano
Christ Church Festival Orchestra
3 MARCH 2006
8.00PM
UNIVERSITY CHURCH, OXFORD
Ravel
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Roussel
Le Festin de l'araignée
Boulez
Mémoriale (... explosante-fixe ... originel)
Haydn
Symphony No.31, Horn Signal
Katherine Bradley, flute (Boulez)
Oxford University Sinfonietta
10 MARCH
2006
7.15PM
HERTFORD COLLEGE HALL, OXFORD
Haydn
Symphony No.59, Feuersymphonie
Haydn
Symphony No.64, Tempora Mutantur
Haydn
Symphony No.73, La Chasse
Haydn
Symphony No.83, La Poule
Oxford
University Sinfonietta
11 MARCH
2006
7.30PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Schumann
Overture: Manfred
Wagner Prelude
and Liebestod, Tristan und Isolde
Debussy Prélude
ŕ L'Aprčs-midi d'un faune
Brahms Symphony No.3
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
1 APRIL 2006
7.30PM
ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Mel Sutton Psalm
67 (first
performance)
Vaughan Williams
English Folk Songs Suite
Five Mystical Songs
Walton
Façade Suite No.2
Lambert
The Rio Grande
*
Beethoven Choral Fantasia
Welwyn Garden City Chorus and
Orchestra
Barbara Manning, piano;
Maciek O'Shea, baritone
* Neil Bell: conductor; John Bantick, narrator
6 APRIL
2006
6.00 PM
SIR
JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL, YORK
Fauré
Pavane
Tippett Spirituals:
A
Child of Our Time
Mozart Requiem
John Ellis, organ
Royal College of Paediatricians Chorus and Orchestra
22 APRIL
2006
7.30PM
HARPENDEN PUBLIC HALLS
Opera Gala Concert with the
National Opera Studio
Borodin Overture and Polovtsian
Dances
Puccini 'Tu
che di gel sei cinta', Turandot
Mascagni Intermezzo, Cavalleria rusticana
Verdi
'Per me guinto, O Carlo, ascolta' (Act IV), Don Carlos
Bizet
Carmen Suite No.1
Wagner 'Good Friday
Music', Parsifal
Puccini 'Sě,
mi chiamano Mimi', La bohčme
Massenet Méditation: Thaďs
Verdi
'Pura siccome un angelo' (Act II duet), La traviata
Mairéad
Buicke, soprano
Seung-Wook
Seong, baritone
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
6 MAY
2006
6.45PM
LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD
Haydn
Symphony No.82, L'Ours
J.C. Bach Symphony in B-flat, op.21 no.3
Mozart Symphony
No.35, Linz
Bartók Romanian
Folk Dances
Haydn Symphony
No.85, La Reine
Oxford University Sinfonietta
14 MAY
2006
1.30 - 6.45 PM (Performance: 5.30PM)
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Melvin
Sutton Symphony, 1st movement
Christopher Crawley
Aspects of Eden - excerpts
Rikky Rooksby
Four Cornish Pictures
Paul Evernden Praeludium
Alexander Prior
Stalin's March
Jim O'Leary
Orchestral Set No.1 - 3: 'Like a Beautiful Dream'
(Rachel van der Tang, 'cello solo)
Geoffrey
Álvarez Overture:
La
profecía última del rey
NEW
MUSIC DAY with
Roxanna
Panufnik,
City
of London Sinfonia members and
St.
Albans Symphony Orchestra.
Free admission. Sponsored by the Arts Council, Eastern Orchestral
Board and St. Albans City Council.
3 JUNE 2006
8.00PM
JACQUELINE DU PRÉ CONCERT HALL, OXFORD
Alicia Grant Figure of Eight
Alicia Grant White Light
Stravinsky
L'Histoire du soldat (suite)
Gluck
Overture: Iphigénia in Aulis (arr. Wagner)
Boccherini Night Music
of Madrid
Mozart
Symphony No.36, Linz
Oxford University Sinfonietta
Concert sponsored by
Price Waterhouse
Cooper's
10 JUNE
2006
7.30PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Walton
Partita for Orchestra
Vaughan Williams
Variations on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Britten
Russian Funeral
Elgar
Enigma Variations
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
/ members of
City of
London Sinfonia
24 JUNE
2006
7.30PM
CAMPUS WEST THEATRE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Delius
La Calinda
Moross
The
Big Country
Barry
Dances with Wolves
Copland Four Dances
from Rodeo
Coleridge-Taylor
Hiawatha's Wedding Feast
Ian Barratt, tenor
Welwyn Garden City Chorus and Orchestra
26 JUNE
2006
7.30PM
HASLEMERE HALL
Tchaikovsky Overture: Romeo and Juliet
Brahms
Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Sibelius
Lemminkainen Legends
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra
3 JULY 2006
8.00PM
JACQUELINE DU PRÉ CONCERT HALL, OXFORD
Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire
The Proteus Ensemble: Gaelyn Pilmoor, flute; Edward Littlewood, clarinet; Elinor White,
violin / viola; Oliver Coates,
'cello; William Falkoner, piano
Sara Jonsson, soprano sprechstimme
9 JULY
2006
3.30PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Children's Concert: Famous Cartoon Music
Batman; Pink Panther; Wallace
and Gromit, The Flintstones and from Disney's Fantasia 2000, including
Tchaikovsky, Nutcracker and Stravinsky, The Firebird
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
22 JULY
2006
7.30PM
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, GAWCOTT
Beethoven Overture: Coriolan
Poulenc
Flute Sonata (orch. Sir Lennox Berkeley)
Mendelssohn Symphony No.4, Italian
Theresa Cory, flute
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
11 NOVEMBER 2006 7.30PM
TOWNLEY HALL, KENT
William Blows Shades of Silver (first performance)
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.2
Elgar
Larghetto: Serenade for Strings
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5
Finnegan Downie-Dear, piano
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
12 NOVEMBER 2006 7.30PM
TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE
Beethoven Overture and Ballet Music: Prometheus
Warlock Capriol
Mozart
Andante for Flute and Orchestra K.315
Chaminade Flute Concertino
Beethoven Symphony No.7
Geraldine Marshall, flute
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra
9 DECEMBER 2006 7.30PM
ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Purcell
Suite: Abdelazer
Monteverdi Beatus Vir
Bruckner Locus iste;
Christus
factus est
Boďeldieu Overture: Le Calife
de Bagdad
Fauré
Pavane; Cantique de Jean Racine
Franck
Panis Angelicus
Butterworth The Banks of Green Willow
Warlock Capriol
Berlioz
'Il s'en va loin', L'Enfance du Christ
Christmas Carols for Choir and Audience
Welwyn Garden City Chorus and Orchestra
16 DECEMBER 2006 7.30PM
TOWNLEY HALL, KENT
Liszt
Les Préludes
Mascagni
Intermezzo: Cavalleria rusticana
Vaughan
Williams English
Folk Song Suite
Delius
Sleigh Ride
Waldteufel Waltz: Les Patineurs
Tchaikovsky Suite: Swan Lake
Anderson
Sleigh
Ride
Traditional Christmas Carols with audience (orchestrated by
Peter Harris)
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra
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2005 U.K. CONCERTS
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reviews.
1 JANUARY 2005 7.00 PM
ST. ALBANS
ABBEY
Shostakovich Festival Overture
Mahler Blumine
Janácek Sinfonietta
Wagner
The
Ride of the Valkyries
Verdi
Grand March and Ballet Music (Act II): Aida
J. Strauss II Egyptian March
and Tales from the Vienna Woods
J. Strauss I Radetzky March
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
30 JANUARY 2005 6.00 PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Elgar
Serenade for Strings
Czerny
Concerto
for Piano Duet and Strings
Guy Dagul Grand Fantasia for Piano Duet and
Strings (first performance)
Harvey Dagul and Isabel Beyer, piano
Members of The Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, led by Jennifer Wigram
19 FEBRUARY 2005 8.00 PM
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
Mussorgsky Night on a Bare Mountain
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.5
Elizabeth Burgess, piano;
Christ Church Festival Orchestra
12 MARCH 2005 7.30 PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Rossini
'Largo al factotum', Il barbiere di Siviglia
Verdi
'Morrň', Un ballo in maschera
Tchaikovsky Yeletsky's Aria, The Queen of Spades
Puccini
'Vissi
d'arte', Tosca
Leoncavallo Scena: 'Silvio! Aquest'ora ...', Pagliacci
Khatchaturian Adagio, Suite No.2: Spartacus
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
(orch. Ravel)
Rejieli Paulo, soprano; John Lofthouse, baritone: The National Opera Studio
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
14 MARCH 2005 7.30 PM
ABINGTON AVENUE CHURCH, NORTHAMPTON
Brahms
Hungarian Dance No.6
Fosse
Pleurs
de novembre
Loewe
My Fair Lady
(excerpts)
Northampton University Orchestra
19 MARCH 2005 7.30 PM
ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Mozart
Symphony No.31, Paris
Mozart 'La ci
darem', Don Giovanni
Mozart 'Dies
Bildnis', Der Zauberflöte
Mozart 'Come
scoglio', Cosě fan tutte
Mozart 'Voi che sapete'
and 'Non piů andrai', Marriage of Figaro
Mozart
Requiem
Sara Jonsson, soprano; Jasia
Nielsen, mezzo-soprano
Anthony Osborne, tenor;
Maciek
O'Shea, baritone
Welwyn Garden City Chorus and
Orchestra
21 APRIL 2005 6.00 PM
SIR JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL, YORK
Haydn
The Seasons
Royal College of Paediatricians Chorus and Orchestra
23 APRIL 2005 7.30 PM
HARPENDEN PUBLIC HALLS
Mussorgsky Night on a Bare Mountain
Holst Invocation for 'Cello and Orchestra
Haydn Concerto for Two Horns in
E-flat
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5
Clare Noble, 'cello;
Timothy French and Jemima Hutchinson, horns
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
5 JUNE 2005 4.00 PM
ST. PAUL'S WALDEN BURY, nr. HITCHIN, HERTS
Mozart
Overture: Don Giovanni
Jacob
Old Wine in New Bottles
Gounod Petite
Symphonie
Orff
Five Movements from Carmina Burana
Dvorák Czech
Suite
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
Wind Ensemble
In aid of the
Sue Ryder
Care Foundation, courtesy of Sir Andrew and Lady Bowes Lyon.
11 JUNE 2005 7.30 PM
WESTON AUDITORIUM, DE HAVILLAND CAMPUS, HATFIELD
Debussy 'Fętes'
and 'Sirčnes': Nocturnes *
Ravel
Shéhérazade
Holst
The Planets *
Sara Jonsson, soprano;
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
* Mid-Herts Chamber Choir (Director: Peter Twitchin)
* Oxford Girls Choir (Director: Richard
Vendome)
18 JUNE 2005 7.30 PM
CAMPUS WEST THEATRE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
V.E. Day 60th Anniversary
Concert
Coates
The Dam-Busters March
Elgar
Variation VIII and XI (Nimrod), Enigma Variations
Ronald Binge Saxophone Concerto
Karl Jenkins The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace
Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No.4
David Wigram Saxophone
John Bantick and Norma Gower Narrators
Welwyn Garden City Chorus and
Orchestra
3 JULY 2005
3.30 PM
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, HOMEWOOD ROAD, ST. ALBANS
Children's
Concert: Kidz in Space
R. Strauss
Introduction: Also
Sprach Zarathustra
Grainer
Theme Music: Dr Who
Courage
Star Trek
John Williams Music from Star Wars
and E.T.
Holst
'Mars', 'Uranus', 'Jupiter', The Planets
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra;
Andrew
Parnell, organ
23 JULY 2005
7.30 PM
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, GAWCOTT, BUCKS.
Weber
Overture: Euryanthe
Mozart
Bassoon Concerto
Beethoven Symphony
No.3, Eroica
Peter Lyndley, bassoon
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
Tickets (Ł10): 01727 857422 or
tickets@saso.org.uk.
8 OCTOBER 2005 7.30 PM
CAMPUS WEST THEATRE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Handel
The Messiah
Claire Barratt, soprano; Katherine Cooper, mezzo-soprano
Ian Barratt, tenor; Stephen Barratt, baritone
Welwyn Garden City Chorus and
Orchestra
Tickets: 01707 322324
29 OCTOBER 2005 7.30PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Wagner
Prelude: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo
Theme
Dvorák
Symphony No.7 in D minor
Guy Johnston, 'cello
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
Tickets: 01727 857422
3 NOVEMBER 2005 7.30PM
ST. JOHN'S SMITH SQUARE, LONDON
Wagner
Prelude: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Chopin
Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor
Dvorák
Symphony No.7 in D minor
Juliet Allen, piano
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
In aid of
The Fund for
Epilepsy.
Tickets (Ł20; Ł15; Ł10):
www.sjss.org.uk
or 020 7592 3270
6 NOVEMBER 2005 7.30PM
TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE
Mozart
Overture: Don Giovanni
Lalo
Deux Aubades d'aprčs Fiesque
Dvorák
Violin Romance in F minor
Schubert Symphony No.4,
Tragic
James McGee, violin
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra
25 NOVEMBER 2005 8.00PM
UNIVERSITY CHURCH, OXFORD
Elgar
Introduction and Allegro
Copland
Appalachian Spring (complete ballet)
Varčse
Octandre
Mozart
Symphony No.38, Prague
Oxford University Sinfonietta
3 DECEMBER 2005 7.30PM
WELWYN CIVIC CENTRE
Battle of Trafalgar Commemoration Concert
Haydn
Missa in tempore belli (Paukenmesse)
Sullivan
Overture: HMS Pinafore
Henry Wood Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Arne
'Rule, Britannia', Alfred
Sara Jonsson, soprano; Claire
Palmer, mezzo-soprano
Adam Tunnicliffe, tenor; David Mallinson, baritone
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus
2004 U.K. CONCERTS
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reviews.
1 JANUARY 2004
ST. ALBANS
ABBEY 7 PM
J. Strauss II Overture: The Gypsy-Baron
Mascagni Intermezzo: Cavalleria rusticana
Ravel La
Valse
Rossini Overture: Guillaume
Tell
Enescu Romanian
Rhapsody No.1
J. Strauss II Blue Danube Waltz
J. Strauss I Radetzky March
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
31 JANUARY 2004
ST. ALBANS ABBEY 7.30 PM
Opera Arias by Mozart and Bellini
Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf
Janácek Scenes from The
Cunning Little Vixen
Dame Diana Rigg: Narrator
Lorina Gore: Soprano and
John Carey
Jones: Baritone:
National Opera Studio;
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
7 FEBRUARY 2004 7.30 PM
ST. ALBANS U.R.C. HOMEWOOD RD
Handel The
Messiah
Sara Jonsson: Soprano
Jasia Nielsen: Mezzo-Soprano
Anthony Osborne: Tenor
Maciek O'Shea:
Baritone
St. Cecilia Festival Society:
St. Albans Chamber
Choir,
The
Hardynge Choir, and
The Radlett Choral
Society;
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
21 FEBRUARY 2004 8.00 PM
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD
Rossini
Overture: Guillaume Tell
Elgar
'Cello Concerto
Schubert Symphony No.9 in C
Steffan Rees: 'Cello
Christ Church Festival Orchestra
6 MARCH 2004 7.30 PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Bizet
Carmen Suites No.1 and No.2
Debussy Rhapsody for Clarinet
Berlioz
Symphonie
fantastique
Koren Wilmer: Clarinet
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
13 MARCH 2004 7.30 PM
ST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
Kodály Dances
of Marosszék
Tchaikovsky Suite No.4: Mozartiana
Franck
Psalm 150
Fauré
Requiem
Edward Rycroft: Treble; Desmond Turner: Baritone
Welwyn Garden City Chorus and
Orchestra
23 MARCH 2004 7.30 PM
ABINGTON AVENUE CHURCH, NORTHAMPTON
Weber
Overture: Preciosa
Mascagni Prelude and
Sicilianna: Cavalleria rusticana
Luchesi
Tango: Su Mascota
Lincke
Glühwormsches Idyll
G. Lama
Silenzio
cantatore
University College Northampton
Orchestra
30 MARCH - 3 APRIL 2004 7.30 PM
THE OLD FIRE STATION THEATRE, OXFORD
Nick Thomas, The Myth of Medea. Incidental music
composed by James Ross.
Instinctive Theatre Company
1 APRIL 2004 6.00 PM
SIR
JACK LYONS CONCERT HALL, YORK
John Ellis Two
Poems by Mattie Stepacek (first performance)
Handel
Solomon
Sara Jonsson: Soprano
Royal College of Paediatricians Chorus and Orchestra
12 JUNE 2004 7.30 PM
HARPENDEN PUBLIC HALLS
R. Strauss Horn
Concerto No.1
Mahler
Symphony No.1
Emma Greenwood: Horn
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
26 JUNE 2004 7.30 PM
CAMPUS WEST THEATRE, WELWYN GARDEN CITY
German Merrie
England
Walton
Crown Imperial
Handel
Zadok the Priest
Vaughan
Williams The Lark
Ascending
Tippett Five
Spirituals: A Child of Our Time
Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
Laura Mitchell: Soprano John Bantick: Tenor /
Narrator
Peter Pearson: Baritone James McGee: Violin
Welwyn Garden City Chorus and
Orchestra
5-10 JULY 2004
ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC, LONDON
Mahler
Blumine
Mahler
Lieder eines fahrenden
Gesellen
Mahler
Symphony No.1
London Master Classes /
Benjamin Zander
London Soloists Chamber
Orchestra;
Sara Jonsson: Soprano
11 JULY 2004 4.00 PM
ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, ST. ALBANS
Mussorgsky Night on a Bare
Mountain
Liadov
Baba Yaga
Humperdinck Witch's Ride: Hansel and Gretel
J. Williams Harry
Potter Symphonic Suite
J. Williams Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique (fourth and fifth movements)
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
24 JULY 2004
7.30 PM
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, GAWCOTT
Rossini
Overture: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Mascagni
Intermezzo: Cavalleria rusticana
K. Templeman Concerto for String Orchestra (first performance)
Beethoven Symphony No.8
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
13 AUGUST 2004 7.30PM
THE UNIVERSITY CHURCH, OXFORD
Dvorák
Serenade for Strings
Vivaldi
Concerto in G minor for Two 'Cellos, RV.411
Barber
Adagio for Strings
Bartók
Divertimento
Chauncey Aceret and Elaine FitzGibbon, 'cellos
Youth Music International String
Orchestra
16 OCTOBER 2004 7.30PM
ST. ALBANS ABBEY
Elgar
The Dream of Gerontius
William
Kendall, tenor
Catherine Denley, mezzo-soprano;
Simon Birchall, bass-baritone
St. Cecilia Festival Society:
St. Albans Chamber
Choir,
Hardynge
Choir, and
Radlett Choral Society;
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra
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7 NOVEMBER 2004 7.00PM
TEWIN BURY, HERTFORDSHIRE
Mozart
Overture: Cosě fan tutte
Arriaga
Symphony in D
Ravel
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Haydn
Symphony No.99
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra
13 DECEMBER 2004 7.30PM
ABINGTON AVENUE CHURCH, NORTHAMPTON
Hoffmeister Serenade in E-flat
Shostakovich 2nd Waltz: Jazz Suite No.2
Orff
Carmina Burana (for chamber ensemble)
University College Northampton
Orchestra
18 DECEMBER 2004 7.30PM
WELWYN CIVIC CENTRE
Rossini Overture: La Cenerentola
Haydn
Winter: The Seasons
Charpentier Messe de minuit de
Noël
Trad.
Christmas Carols
Sara Jonsson, soprano;
Philip Fine, tenor; Peter Pearson, baritone
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus