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Previous concerts


Winter 2024
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No.1
Stanford: Clarinet Concerto (soloist, Alexander McDonald)
Mendelssohn: Symphony No.3 'Scotist'

Summer 2024

Mahler: Blumine; 2 songs from 'Rückert-Lider' (soloist, Taryn Surratt)
                   Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder!
​                   Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Bridge: Summer (soloist Taryn Surratt)
Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 2015
Beethoven: Symphony No1

Spring 2024
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 (soloist, Elizabeth Shepherd)
Stravinsky: Suite No. 1
Roussel: Le Festin de l'araignée


Winter 2023
​Kodály: Dances of Galánta
Reinecke: Flute Concerto (soloist, Eva Caballero)
Beethoven: Egmont, Complete Incidental Music

Summer 2023
Kenneth Leighton: Festive Overture
John Ireland: Piano Concerto (soloist, Angela Brownridge)
​Sibelius: Symphony No. 3

Spring 2023
Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes
Leech: Viola Concerto (soloist, Varinia Oyola Rebaza)
Mathias: Serenade​
​Ravel: 'Ma mère l'Oye', complete ballet

Winter 2022
Edward MacDowell: Ophelia, Op. 22
Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto (soloist: Toby Purdy)
​Ernest Bloch: In Memoriam
Erich Zeisl: Suite from 'The Return of Ulysses' (European premiere)
Erich Korngold: Theme and Variations, Op. 42​

Summer 2022
Mozart: Don Giovanni, overture
Rodrigo : 'Concierto Serenata' for harp and orchestra (soloist, Irantzu Agirre Arrizubieta)
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 'Italian'​

Spring 2022
Sibelius: Overture: 'La Chasse' (Die Jagd/The Hunt/Chase) from Scènes historiques II, Op.66
Elgar: Cello Concerto (soloist: Ellen Baumring-Gledhill)
Nielsen: Symphony No. 1​

Winter 2021
Ravel​: Piano Concerto in G (soloist: Olga Jegunova)
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet


Summer 2021
Rossini​: Il barbiere di Siviglia - overture
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral'
Honegger: Pastorale d'
été​​
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Winter 2019​​
Martinů: Overture (H345, 1953)
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K. 364 (soloists: Ian Byrne-Brito and Lisa Ueda)​
Dvořák: Symphony No. 7

Summer 2019​
Mendelssohn: Overture, Die schöne Melusine
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1
Leech: The wind in the ash... 
Haydn: Symphony No. 99 


Spring 2019
Cherubini: Médée, overture
Berlioz: Les nuits d'été (soloist, Raphaela Papadakis)
Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande
Franck: Les Éolides​​

December 2018
​Mendelssohn: Overture in C
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
​Schumann: Symphony No. 4​

June 2018
Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune; La Boîte à joujoux
Martinů: Sinfonietta ‘La Jolla’
Falla: El sombrero de tres picos, Suite 1, Scenes and Dances ​

March 2018

Mendelssohn: Overture 'The Hebrides'
Schumann: Piano Concerto (Soloist: Eva Maria Doroszkowska)
​Beethoven: Symphony No. 2


December 2017
Prokofiev: Autumnal Sketch
Lyadov: The Enchanted Lake
Kabilevsky: Violin Concerto (Soloist: Keith Ramsell)
Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina, Introduction (ed. Rimsky Korsakov)
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf (Narrator: Kieran Hodgson)

July 2017
Bartòk: Romanian Folk Dances
Kodàly: Summer Evening
Bartòk: First Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra (Soloist: Hartmut Richter)
Roussel: Le festin de l’araignée
Ravel: Tzigane (Soloist: Hartmut Richter)

March 2017
Beethoven: Overture 'Fidelio'
Schubert: Symphony No. 4 'Tragic'
Brahms: Double Concerto for Vioin and Cello (Soloists: Clare Wheeler and Jo Keithley)

November 2016
Moeran: Sinfonietta
Williams: The Lark Ascending
​Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow
​Bridge: Summer

July 2016
Mahler: Symphony No. 4

​Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder (featuring mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean)
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March 2016

Dvořák: Symphony No. 8
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 2 (Soloist: Kamila Bydłowska)
Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes Op. 34 bis​

November 2015
Mozart: Idomeneo (Overture)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 ('Eroica')
Waterhouse: Cello Concerto (Soloist: Graham Waterhouse)

July 2015
Falla: El amor brujo (1925 ballet) (Soloist: Lotte Betts-Dean)
Arriaga: Symphony in D
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
Montsalvatge: Variaciones sobre La Spagnoletta de Giles Farnaby (UK premiere) (Soloist: János Agócsi)

March 2015
Sibelius: Belshazzar's Feast, suite
Gade: Symphony No. 4
Strauss: Wind Serenade
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Soloist: Maciej Raginia)

November 2014
Mozart: Don Giovanni, overture
Suk: Mediation on the Old Czech Chorale 'St Wenceslas'
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 'Classical'
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major (soloist Hartmut Richter)

July 2014
Copland: An Outdoor Overture
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 (soloist Yuki Negishi)
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"

April 2014
Mozart: Symphony No. 32
Bruch: Double Concerto in E minor (soloists Katya Lazareva & Ayako Kamazaki)
Liadov: Eight Russian Folksongs
Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn

December 2013
Sibelius: Pelléas et Mélisande
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Sussex Folksongs (soloist Joanne Keithley)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

July 2013
Wagner: Prelude, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Lolavar: Things Come Together - world première
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 "Organ"

March 2013

Martinů: Rhapsody-Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (soloist Katya Lazareva)
Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande
Dvořák: Legends (a selection)


December 2012
Delius: A Song before Sunrise
Brahms: Violin Concerto (soloist Haruko Motohashi)
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 (Scottish)

July 2012
MacCunn: Overture "The land of the mountain and the flood"
Beethoven: Concerto for Piano, no. 5, op.73, E flat major, "Emperor" (soloist Maciej Raginia)

Schubert: Symphony, no. 8, D759, B minor (Unfinished)

March 2012
Vaughan Williams: Overture "The Wasps"
Haydn: Symphony No. 101 "The Clock"
Gustav Holst: "Lyric Movement" for viola and small Orchestra. (soloist Diana Mathews)
Imogen Holst: "Joyce’s Divertimento"
George Butterworth: "The Banks of Green Willow"

November 2011
Borodin: Symphony No. 2
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 (soloist Tetsuumi Nagata)
Humperdinck: Prelude, Hansel & Gretel 

July 2011
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8
Grieg: Piano Concerto (soloist Yllka Istrefi)
Beethoven: Overture, The Consecration of the House

March 2011 - guest conductor Andrey Rubtsov
Chaminade: Concertino Op. 107 for flute and orchestra (soloist Peter Wakefield)
Fauré: Masques et bergamasques Op. 112
Fauré: Fantaisie Op. 79 for flute and orchestra (orch. Yoav Talmi, soloist Peter Wakefield)
Mozart: Symphony No. 31 in D "Paris"

January 2011
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride, overture
Glazunov: Violin Concerto (soloist Yegee Lee)
Shostakovich: Hamlet Film Music Suite

July 2010
Schumann: Overture, Scherzo & Finale, Op. 52
Brahms: Hungarian Dances (a selection)
Dvořák: Cello Concerto (soloist Marina Comas Castiñeira)

March 2010
Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1 (soloist Tomáš Klement)
Berwald: Symphony No. 3 in C 'Singulière'

December 2009
Leech: Canzona
Elgar: Cello Concerto (soloist Evva Mizerska)
Kalinnikov: Symphony No. 1

July 2009
Mendelssohn: 
Overture, Die schöne Melusine 
Piano Concerto No. 1 (soloist Samantha Ward)
Haydn: Symphony No. 104, "London"
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte

March 2009
Dvořák: Legends (a selection)
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (soloist Barbara Dziewięcka)


December 2008
Prout: A Finchley Overture
Schumann: Cello Concerto (soloist Evva Mizerska)
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1

June 2008
Mozart: Overture, The Magic Flute
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 (soloist Sasha Grynyuk)
Sibelius: Symphony No. 3

March 2008
Rimsky-Korsakov: Overture, May Night
Brahms: Violin Concerto (soloist Alicja Śmietana)
Dvořák: Symphony No. 5

December 2007
Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia
Khachaturian: Violin Concerto (soloist Keith Ramsell)
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7

June 2007
Beethoven: Overture, Coriolan
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 K.491 (soloist Francisco Soriano Ramirez)
Arriaga: Symphony in D

March 2007
Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances
Bruch: Kol Nidrei (soloist Helen Cooper)
Brahms: Symphony No. 2
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