8 FEBRUARY 2017
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
Haydn Symphony No.96
London Repertoire Orchestra
ST JOSEPH'S HALL, CITY OF LONDON
Haydn Symphony No.96
London Repertoire Orchestra
SOFIA PHILHARMONIC, BULGARIA
Джеймс Рос ще дирижира Новогодишния концерт на Филхармонията
James Ross debut at Bulgaria Hall, Sofia Bulgaria Hall, Sofia
Elgar, Serenade for Strings
Corelli, Christmas Concerto
Pavel Zlatarov and Petya Dimitrova, violins; Lyubo Nikov, 'cello; Biser Marinov Genev, continuo
Vivaldi, Gloria
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and Bulgarian National Philharmonic Choir "Svetoslav Obretenov" (Luba Pesheva, chorus director), Sara Wallander, soprano and Bonka Georgieva, mezzo-soprano.
PLAY Bulgarian TV - at 20'20"
Джеймс Рос ще дирижира Новогодишния концерт на Филхармонията
James Ross debut at Bulgaria Hall, Sofia Bulgaria Hall, Sofia
Elgar, Serenade for Strings
Corelli, Christmas Concerto
Pavel Zlatarov and Petya Dimitrova, violins; Lyubo Nikov, 'cello; Biser Marinov Genev, continuo
Vivaldi, Gloria
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and Bulgarian National Philharmonic Choir "Svetoslav Obretenov" (Luba Pesheva, chorus director), Sara Wallander, soprano and Bonka Georgieva, mezzo-soprano.
PLAY Bulgarian TV - at 20'20"
ST JOHN'S SMITH SQUARE LONDON
Copland Fanfare for the Common Man
Bernstein Candide Overture
Menotti To this we've come: The Consul
Barber Give me my robe: Antony and Cleopatra
Jonathan Clarke Apocalypse - first performance
Bernstein Symphonic Dances: West Side Story
Kern Ol' Man River: Show Boat
Rodgers Scenes from South Pacific & Oklahoma!
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra with members of the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka. Tudor Hall Chamber Choir, Sara Wallander, soprano, Rohan de Lanerolle, baritone, Ishan de Lanerolle, bass
Copland Fanfare for the Common Man
Bernstein Candide Overture
Menotti To this we've come: The Consul
Barber Give me my robe: Antony and Cleopatra
Jonathan Clarke Apocalypse - first performance
Bernstein Symphonic Dances: West Side Story
Kern Ol' Man River: Show Boat
Rodgers Scenes from South Pacific & Oklahoma!
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra with members of the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka. Tudor Hall Chamber Choir, Sara Wallander, soprano, Rohan de Lanerolle, baritone, Ishan de Lanerolle, bass
ELGAR PERFORMANCES
The Banner of Saint George
Chorus Mundi / Anthony McCarthy, piano: St. Mary Magdalene, Oxford, 16 Jun 2007
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus: St John's Church, WGC, 25 Jun 2015, supported by The Elgar Society
Caractacus: Triumphal March
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra: St Francis' Church, WGC, 24 Mar 2012
'Cello Concerto
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra / Guy Johnston: St. Saviour's Church, St. Albans, 18 Oct 2003
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra / Gerard Le Feuvre: St. John's Smith Square, London, 6 Nov 2003
Christ Church Festival Orchestra / Stefan Rees: Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, 21 Feb 2004
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra / Ben Stevens: Townley Hall, Bexleyheath, 12 May 2007
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra / Felicity Corrie: St Francis' Church, WGC, 13 Dec 2014
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra / William Robertson: St John's Church, Sidcup, 12 Mar 2016
Chanson de nuit
Northampton University Orchestra, 2004
Cockaigne Overture
Essex Symphony Orchestra (rehearsal), 16 Jan 2006
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra, Townley Hall, Bexleyheath, 17 Mar 2007
The Dream of Gerontius
William Kendall, Gerontius (tenor); Catherine Denley, The Angel (mezzo-soprano); Simon Birchall, The Angel of the Agony (bass-baritone); St. Albans Chamber Choir; Hardynge Choir; Radlett Choral Society; St. Albans Symphony Orchestra. St. Albans Abbey, Saturday 16 October 2004
Coronation Ode
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra (rehearsals): Sep / Oct 2002
Enigma Variations
Midland Youth Orchestra: Sir Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham: 'Nimrod': 6 Nov 1999
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra (rehearsal), May / Jun 2004; 'Var. VIII and Nimrod': 19 Jun 2005
Essex Symphony Orchestra (rehearsal), 16 Jan 2006
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra and members of City of London Sinfonia, St. Saviour's Church, St. Albans, 10 Jun 2006
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra: 31 May 2014
Froissart
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra, St Francis' Church, Welwyn Garden City, 20 Jun 2009
From the Bavarian Highlands
Harpenden Choral Society (rehearsal), Apr 2006
Chorus Mundi / Anthony McCarthy, piano: St. Mary Magdalene, Oxford, 16 Jun 2007
Harmony Music
Royal College of Paediatricians Orchestra, 26 Mar 1998
Introduction and Allegro
Christ Church Festival Orchestra: Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, 3 Mar 2001
Christ Church Festival Orchestra: St. John's Smith Square, London, 8 Mar 2001
Oxford University Sinfonietta: University Church, Oxford, 25 Nov 2006
Youth Music International String Orchestra: Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford: 18 Aug 2007
The Music Makers
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra (rehearsals), Mar - Apr 2004
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra and Chorus / Helen Anne Gregory: 3 March 2012
Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
Midland Youth Orchestra (rehearsals), Sep / Oct 1998
Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka, Ladies College, Colombo, 27 Jan 2001
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra (rehearsals), Sep / Oct 2002.
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra and Chorus, 26 Jun 2004
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra, Townley Hall, 14 Jul 2007; 5 Jul 2008; 4 July 2009
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra, 11 Jul 2010
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra, 7 May and 14 May 2011
Brignorth Sinfonia, 15 Jun 2013; 14 Jun 2014; 13 Jun 2015
Bexley Youth Orchestra, 29 Sep 2015
Pomp and Circumstance March No.2
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra, Townley Hall, 4 Jul 2009
Pomp and Circumstance March No.4
Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka, Ladies College, Colombo, 27 Jan 2001
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra (rehearsals), Jun 2002
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra: Campus West Theatre, 19 Jun 2005
Serenade for Strings
Isis Strings: Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, 26 Feb 1991
Christ Church Festival Orchestra: Flexlands Hall, Chobham, 15 Sep 1998
Midland Youth Orchestra Chamber Ensemble, Great Hall, Aston University, 1999
St. Albans Ensemble: St. Saviour's Church, St. Albans, 30 Jan 2005
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra, Townley Hall, Bexleyheath, 11 Nov 2006 (2nd mvt)
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra, WGC United Reformed Church, 13 Nov 2007
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra, St John's Church, Sidcup, 12 Dec 2010
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Bulgaria Hall, Sofia, 30 Dec 2011
Symphony No.1
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra, Townley Hall, Bexleyheath, 17 Mar 2007
St. Albans Symphony Orchestra, St. Saviour's Church, 14 Mar 2009
The Wand of Youth Suites
Welwyn Garden City Orchestra, St. Francis' Church, WGC, 23 Jun 2007
Haslemere Symphony Orchestra, Haslemere Hall, 16 Jun 2009
Sidcup Symphony Orchestra: Chislehurst and Sidcup Hall, 2 Jul 2011
MUSIKKUNSTWERK: NEW MUSIC AT THE SAATCHI GALLERY
Wednesday 22 February 2012
TOP YOUNG COMPOSERS RESPOND TO SAATCHI GALLERY'S LATEST GERMAN ART EXHIBITION IN LIVE PERFORMANCE ON 22 FEBRUARY, 7PM
The Saatchi Gallery’s current Gesamtkunstwerk Exhibition is the inspiration for a new and innovative collaboration with The Purcell School and neighbouring Queenswood School. The Purcell School, one of the world's leading music institutions, has selected outstandingly talented young composers from five different countries to compose music inspired by the Exhibition's art works. They will be joined by five composition students from Queenswood School. The new music will be performed live at the Gallery next to the art works chosen by the composers on Wednesday 22 February at 7pm, following the Saatchi Sculpture at School Prize awards.
The students have had complete freedom on their choice of art work, and how to respond to it. They have been encouraged to go far beyond immediate notions of representation, and to produce music that may reflect, comment on or even react against the selected art works. The idea, pioneered by British conductor James Ross and former Saatchi Education Director Dyala Nusseibeh, is to bring the Gesamtkunstwerk concept full circle, returning it to music, and to show the limitless possibilities it could inspire.
James Ross comments: 'The composers have succeeded in taking radically different approaches to their chosen art works, in a huge range of styles and instrumental combinations. What unites them is how strongly the art works have stimulated the composers' imaginations. The Saatchi Gallery’s Gesamtkunstwerk Exhibition shows the rich and diverse range of contemporary German art; the composers' responses are an equally fascinating tribute to the creativity of today's leading young musicians.'
SIDCUP SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Saturday 10 March 2012
Berlioz, Roman Carnival Overture
Rachmaninov, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Liadov, The Enchanted Lake
Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel), Pictures at an Exhibition
Acclaimed pianist James Willshire joins Sidcup Symphony Orchestra for Rachmaninov’s famous Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini at their next concert Saturday 10 March, St John’s Church, Sidcup, DA14 6BX, at 7.30pm. James Willshire delighted the Sidcup audience with Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto last year; the 10th March concert promises dazzling piano playing – and one of classical music’s most beautiful melodies.
The concert, conducted by SSO Music Director James Ross, starts in party mode with French composer Berlioz’s wild and thrilling Roman Carnival Overture, and also features Liadov’s The Enchanted Lake, a rarely played beautiful Russian miniature. The night culminates with Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition: a tribute to a close artist friend who whose paintings are brought to life in music. Expect an evil gnome, a lumbering ox-cart, a saxophonist posing as a medieval balladeer, chicks dancing in their shells, ghoulish catacombs in which skulls light up, terrifying Russian witch Baba Yaga with suitably barbaric music, and finally the whole orchestra of over seventy musicians blazing out the majestic ‘Great Gate of Kiev’. Fans of an infamous fictitious politician from the 1980s played by Rik Mayall will recognise the opening trumpet tune immediately.
James Ross comments: ‘James Willshire made a huge impression on our audience and I’m delighted he’s returning to play with SSO again on 10th March. I’m also excited to be performing Mussorgsky’s Pictures: it’s packed with great solos for the Orchestra’s principal players from the tuba upwards: anyone who’s never heard a full symphony orchestra live before will be amazed by the range of sounds and moods this music creates.’
