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 Next Performance - Thursday 23rd September, 7:30pm

 

Dvorak - 'Carnival' Overture

Shostakovich - Cello Concerto No. 1

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4

 

With Guy Johnston - Cello

 

St. James's Church, 197 Piccadilly, W1J 9LL






                                                              

 

 

2010

 

 

Thursday July 1st 2010, St Augustine's Queensgate
Beethoven - Egmont Overture
Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet
Schumann - Symphony No. 4
Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet 'Suite No. 2'
Conductor - Chris Hopkins
  

 

 

Thursday May 13th 2010, St Augustine's Queensgate
Vaughan Williams - Sympnony No. 2 'London'
Elgar - Cockaigne Overture 'In London Town'
Haydn - Symphony No. 104 'London'
Conductor - Chris Hopkins
  

 

 

Thursday March 25th 2010, St James's Piccadilly
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 3
Elgar - Symphony No. 1
Soloist - Andrew Harvey 
Conductor - Chris Hopkins

 

 

Thursday February 11th 2010, St Augustine's Queensgate
Bartok - Violin Concerto No. 2
Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 2
Soloist - Andrew Harvey 
Conductor - Chris Hopkins
 

 

 

2009

Thursday November 26th 2009, St Augustine's Queensgate
Opera Arias

Dvorak - Symphony No. 9

Brahms - Tragic Overture
Soloists - From the Royal Academy of Music 
Conductor - Chris Hopkins

 

 

Thursday October 22nd 2009, St Augustine's Queensgate
Wagner - Tannhäuser overture
Elgar - Serenade for strings
Strauss - Serenade for wind
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5
Conductor - Chris Hopkins

 

 

Thursday June 18th 2009, St Augustine's Queensgate
Sibelius - Karelia Suite
Dvorak - Violin concerto
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 'Pathetique'
Conductor - Chris Hopkins
Soloist -Charlie Siem


 


Thursday February 19th 2009, St Augustine's Queensgate
Elgar - Cello Concerto
Sibelius - Symphony No. 5
Brahms - Symphony No. 1
Conductor - Robert Tuohy
Soloist - Sarah Westley

 


2008

Thursday December 4th 2008, St Augustine's Queensgate
Dvorak - Cello Concerto
Brahms - Symphony No. 1
Conductor - Nick Collon
Soloist - Oliver Coates

Sunday 9th November 2008, LSO St Luke's
OOTC with the Elysian Singers
Elisabeth Maconchy - Cantata "Heloise and Abelard"
Conductor - Sam Laughton

Friday 20th June 2008, St John's Smith Square
Wagner - Prelude Act III Lohengrin
Poulenc - Organ concerto
Bruckner - Symphony No. 7
Benjamin Bayl - Conductor
Simon Preston - Organ

Thursday 22nd May 2008, St Augustine's Queensgate
Smetana - 'Vlatava' & 'From Bohemia's Wood and Fields' from Ma Vlast
Dvorak - Romance in F minor for violin and orchestra
Dvorak - Symphony No. 7
Robert Tuohy - Conductor
Tom Evans - Violin

Thursday 3rd April 2008, St Augustine's Queensgate
Sibelius - Finlandia
Sibelius - Violin concerto 

Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor
Pedro Meireles, Violin
Dominic Grier, Conductor

Thursday 31st January 2008, St Augustine's Queensgate
Haydn - The Creation
with Benjamin Bayl, conductor
Elizabeth Weisberg, soprano
Andrew Tortise, tenor
Philip Tebb, bass
Elysian Singers
Nonsuch Singers


 


2007


Thursday 29th November 2007, St John's Waterloo, London
Schumann - Manfred Overture
Strauss - Tod und Verklarung
Brahms - Piano Concerto No.2
with Sam Haywood, piano
and Nick Collon, conductor



Thursday 18th October 2007, St Augustine's Queensgate, South Kensington, London
Schubert - Unfinished Symphony
Mahler - Symphony No.4
with Robert Tuohy, conductor



Thursday 19th July 2007, St Augustine's Queensgate, South Kensington, London
Mussorgsky/Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition
Mussorgsky/Rimsky - Khovanschina, Prelude to Act I
Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto

with Katharine Gowers, violin and Robert Tuohy, conductor



Thursday 31st May 2007, St Augustine's Queensgate, South Kensington, London
Shostakovich - Festive Overture
Shostakovich - Cello Concerto No.2
Rachmaninov - Symphony No.2

with Louise Hopkins, cello and Ben Bayl, conductor



Thursday 8th March 2007, St Augustine's Queensgate, South Kensington, London
Mozart - Jupiter Symphony
Holst - Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda
Holst - The Planets Suite

with Elysian Singers and Ben Bayl, conductor



2006

 



Thursday 7th December 2006, St Augustine's Queensgate, South Kensington, London
Wagner - Overture to Die Meistersinger
Finzi - Clarinet Concerto
Trad. arr [secret] - world première of new arrangement of 'But not for me'
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherezade

with Peter Sparks, clarinet and Ben Bayl, conductor



Friday 27th October 2006, St Augustine's Queensgate, South Kensington, London
Berlioz - King Lear Overture
Berlioz - Les Nuits d'été
Beethoven - Symphony No.2

with Julia Riley, soprano and Robert Tuohy, conductor



Thursday 13th July 2006, St John's Smith Square, London
Wagner - Preludes from Acts 1 & 3 of Lohengrin
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 'Elvira Madigan' (with Benjamin Grosvenor, piano)
Sibelius - Symphony No. 2



Friday 31st March 2006 (Eton College Chapel) and Saturday 1st April 2006 (Tewkesbury Abbey)
Beethoven - Coriolan Overture
Judith Weir - We are Shadows
Brahms - Requiem (with Sophie Daneman, soprano and Thomas Guthrie, baritone)



Wednesday 22nd February 2006, St John's Smith Square, London
Stephen Ferre - "Oyre's Garden" (European premiere)
Richard Strauss - Four Last Songs
Shostakovich - Symphony No.10
(with Gweneth-Ann Jeffers, soprano)



Tuesday 24th January 2006 Australia House, Aldwych, London
Mozart - Clemenza Overture
Puccini - Che gelida manina from La Boheme
Wagner - Prelude and Liebestod from 'Tristan und Isolde'
Milhaud - Scaramouche
Rachmaninov - Paganini Variations
(with Paul O'Neill, tenor, Miranda Keys, soprano, Amy Dickson, saxophone, Ambre Hammond, piano)



2005


14th October at City of London School - London Rush Hour Concert
Jonathan Dove - Run to the Edge
Vaughan Williams - London Symphony
Conductor - Benjamin Bayl

 


8th July at St Stephen's Church Gloucester Road
Britten - Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings
Mahler - Symphony No.5
(with Nicholas Smith, tenor & Martin Lawrence, horn)


6th May at St. Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road
Verdi -Overtur to La Forza del Destino
Dominic Flagello - Concerto for orchestra and Saxophone Quartet (UK premiere)
Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances
Veya - Saxophone Quartet
Conductor - Bejamin Bayl

 


26th February at St Paul's Knightsbridge
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.3
Walton - Symphony No.1
(with Ivana Gavric, piano)


2004



8th December at St Giles Cripplegate
Britten - Four Sea Interludes
Beethoven - Violin Concerto
Elgar - Enigma Variations
(with Tom Evans, violin)


16th November at Australia House, London
A concert of works by William Wallace
(with Richard Bonynge, conductor)



23rd September at St George's Cathedral Southwark and 24th September at King's College Cambridge
Tallis Sancte Deus
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Arvo Part - Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Tavener - Lament for Jerusalem - European première
(with Patricia Rozario, soprano & Andrew Watts, counter-tenor and the Rodolfus Choir directed by Ralph Allwood)


19th June at St John's Smith Square
Barber - Toccata Festiva for Organ and Orchestra
Copland - Appalachian Spring
Saint-Saens - Symphony No.3 in C minor 'Organ'
(with Simon Preston, organ)


26th March at St Augustine's Queensgate
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
R. Strauss - Suite Op.4 for Thirteen Winds
Brahms - Symphony No.2


2003



10th October at St James' Piccadilly
Walton Portsmouth Point
Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E flat
Stravinsky Petrushka
(with Melanie McLoughlin, trumpet)


11th July at St John's Smith Square
Dvorak Carnival Overture
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2
Beethoven Symphony No.3 'Eroica'
(with Tom Poster, piano)

 

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