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Next Performance - Thursday 9th February 2012, St James's Piccadilly, 7:30pm

Mahler - Songs of a Wayfarer


Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10


Baritone - Jonathan McGovern

 






                                                              

 Past Concerts

 

 2011

 

Thursday 1st December 2011, St. James's Piccadilly   

Wagner - Overutre to Die Meistersinger von Nurmburg
Christopher Gunning - Guitar Concerto - World Premiere

Dvorak - Symphony No. 8

Guitar - Craig Ogden

Conductor - Nic Chalmers 


 

Thursday 6th October 2011, St. James's Piccadilly   

Mendelssohn - Overture to a Midsummer Night's Dream
Saint-Saens - Cello Concerto No. 1

Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 3 'Scottish'

Cello - Brian O'Kane

Conductor - Nic Chalmers

 

 

 

Thursday 14th July 2011, St. James's Piccadilly   

Brahms - Hungarian Dances
Dvorak - Slavonic Dances
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5    
Conductor - Chris Hopkins


 

 Thursday 26th  May 2011, St. John's Waterloo   

Mozart - Symphony No. 32 'Overture in the Italian Style'
Brahms - Double Concerto
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7
Conductor - Chris Hopkins    
Soloists - Andrew Harvey & Colin Alexander


 

 

  Thursday 14th April 2011, City of London School   

Beethoven - Coriolan Overture
Beethoven - Symphony No. 1
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 1    
Conductor - Boris Peck


 

Thursday 3rd March 2011, St. James's Piccadilly   

Music from Films    
Conductor - Chris Hopkins


 

 2010

 

Friday November 26th 2010, St. John's Waterloo   
Humperdinck - Hansel and Gretel Overture
Enescu - Dixtuor (1st Movement)
Grieg - Two Elegiac Melodies
Brahms - Symphony No. 3    
Conductor - Chris Hopkins


 

Thursday October 23rd 2010, St James's Piccadilly
Dvorak - Carnival Overture
 
 Shostakovich - Cello Concert No. 1
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4  
Conductor - Chris Hopkins
Soloist - Guy Johnston 
  

 

 

 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 - Symphony 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
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
Sibelius - Karelia Suite
 Elgar Serenade for strings
Strauss - Serenade for wind  
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5
Conductor - Chris Hopkins 
  

 

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
  

 Thursday October 23rd 2010, St James's Piccadilly

Dvorak - Carnival Overture 
 Shostakovich - Cello Concerto No. 1
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4  
Conductor - Chris Hopkins
Soloist - Guy Johnston 
  


Sunday 9th November 2008, LSO St. Lukes

OOTC with the Elysian Singers 
 Elizabeth Maconchy - Cantata "Helouise 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  
Conductor - Ben Bayl
Soloist - Simon Preston 
  


 Thursday 22nd May 2008, St Augustine's Queensgate

Smetana - Vlatava and From Bohemias Woods and Fiedls from Ma Vlast
 Dvorak - Romance in F minor from violin and orchestra
Dvorak - Symphony No. 7
Conductor - Robert Tuohy 
Soloist - Tom Evans
 


 Thursday 3rd April 2008, St Augustine's Queensgate

Sibelius - Finlandia
 Sibelius - Violin Concerto
Brahms - Symphony No. 4  
Conductor - Dominic Grier
Soloist - Pedro Meireles 
  


 Thursday 31st January 2008, St Augustine's Queensgate

Haydn - The Creation
Conductor - Ben Bayl  
Elysian Singers
Nonsuch Singers 
  


  2007

 Thursday 29th November 2007, St John's Waterloo

Schumann - Manfred Overture
 Strauss - Tod und Verklarung
Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2  
Conductor - Nick Collon
Soloist - Sam Haywood 
  


 Thursday 18th October 2007, St Augustine's Queensgate

Schubert - Unfinished Symphony 
 Mahler - Symphony No. 4  
Conductor - Robert Tuohy

 
  

 Thursday 19th July 2007, St Augustine's Queensgate

Mussorgsky/Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition
 Mussorgsky/Ravel - Khovanschina, Prelude to Act I
Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto
Conductor - Robert Tuohy
Soloist - Katharine Gowers 


 Thursday 31st May 2007, St Augustine's Queensgate

Shostakovich - Festive Overture 
 Shostakovich - Cello Concerto No. 2
Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 2  
Conductor - Ben Bayl
Soloist - Louise Hopkins 
  


 Thursday 8th March 2007, St Augustine's Queensgate

Mozart - Jupiter Symphony 
 Holst - Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda
Holst - The Planets Suite
Conductor - Ben Bayl
Elysian Singers 
  


  2006

 Thursday 7th December 2006, St Augustine's Queensgate

Wagner - Overture to Die Meistersinger 
 Finzi - Clarinet Concerto
Trad. arr [secret] - World Premiere of 'But not for me'  
Rimsky Korsakov - Scheherezade
Conductor - Ben Bayl 
Soloist - Peter Sparks


Friday 27th October 2006, St. Augustine's Queensgate

Berlioz - King Lear Overture 
 Berlioz - Les Nuits d'ete
Berlioz - Symphony No. 2  
Conductor - Robert Tuohy
Soloist - Julia Riley 
  


 Thursday 13th July 2006, St John's Smith Square

Wagner - Preludes from Acts I and III of Lohengrin 
 Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 'Elvira Madigan'
Sibelius - Symphony No. 2  
Conductor - Ben Bayl
Soloist - Benjamin Grosvenor 
  


 Friday 31st March 2006, Eton College Chapel and Saturday 1st April 2006, Tewkesbury Abbey

Beethoven - Coriolan Overture 
 Judith Weir - We are shadows
Brahms - Requiem  
Conductor - Ben Bayl
Soloists - Sophie Daneman & Thomas Guthrie 
  


 Wednesday 22nd February 2006, St. John's Smith Square

Stephen Ferre - 'Oyre's Garden' (European Premiere) 
 Richard Strauss - Four Last Songs
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10  
Conductor - Ben Bayl
Soloist - Gweneth-Ann Jeffers 
  


 Tuesday 24th January 2006, Australia House, London

Mozart - Clemenza Overture 
 Puccini - Che gelida manina from La Boheme
Wagner - Prelude and Liebestod from 'Tristan and Isolde'  
Milhaud - Scaramouche
Rachmaninoff - Paganini Variations
Conductor - Ben Bayl   


  2005

 14th October 2005, City of London School

Jonathan Dove - Run to the Edge 
 Vaughan Williams - London Symphony  
Conductor - Ben Bayl 
  


 8th July 2005, St Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road

Britten - Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings 
 Mahler - Symphony No. 5  
Conductor - Ben Bayl
Soloists - Nicholas Smith & Martin Lawrence 
  


 6th May 2005, St Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road

Verdi - Overture to La Forza del Destino 
 Dominic Flagello - Concerto for Orchestra and Saxophone Quartet (UK Premiere)
Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances  
Veya - Saxophone Quartet
Conductor - Ben Bayl 
  


 26th February 2005 - St Paul's Knightsbridge

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 3 
 Walton - Symphony No. 1  
Conductor - Ben Bayl
Soloist - Ivana Gavric 
  


  2004

 8th December 2004, St Giles Cripplegate

Britten - Four Sea Interludes 
 Beethoven - Violin Concerto
Elgar - Enigma Variations  
Conductor - Ben Bayl
Soloist - Tom Evans 
  


 16th November 2004, Australia House, London

A concert of works by William Wallace  
Conductor - Ben Bayl


 23rd & 24th September 2004, St George's Cathedral, Southwark & King's College Cambridge

Tallis - Sancte Deus
 Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis
Arvo Part - Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten  
Taverner - Lamen for Jerusalem (European Premiere)
Conductor - Ben Bayl
 Soloists - Patricia Rozario & Andrew Watts
 


 19th June 2004, St John's Smith Square

 Barber - Toccata Festiva for Organ and Orchestra
Copland - Appalachian Spring  
Saint-Saens - Symphony No. 3 'Organ'
Conductor - Ben Bayl
Soloist - Simon Preston 
  


 26th March 2004, 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
Conductor - Ben Bayl 
  


 2003 

 10th October 2003, St James's Piccadilly

Walton - Portsmouth Point 
 Haydn - Trumpet Concerto in E flat
Stravinsky - Petruschka  
Conductor - Ben Bayl
Soloist - Melanie McLoughlin 
  


 11th July 2003, St John's Smith Square

Dvorak - Carnival Overture
 Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2
Beethoven Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'  
Conductor - Ben Bayl
Soloist - Tom Poster