Past Programmes

March 2012
 BRIDGE  -  An Irish Melody
HERTEL  -  Concerto for trumpet, oboe and strings
BARBER  -  Adagio for Strings
GERSHWIN  -  Lullaby
COPLAND  -  “Quiet City” for trumpet, cor anglais and strings
HERBERT  -  Serenade for Strings
GRAINGER  -  “Molly on the Shore”
With Colin Bloch – Trumpet
and Jennifer Mears – Oboe/Cor Anglais 

November 2011
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV – Overture on Russian Themes
JONATHAN PALMER – Concerto for Double Bass “Reminiscences”
Soloist – David Heyes
SHOSTAKOVICH – Prelude & Romance from Gadfly Suite
Haydn – Symphony no. 103 “Drum Roll”

June 2011
VIVALDI: Concerto in G for String Orchestra RV151
VIVALDI: Nulla in mundo pax sincera RV630 (Soloist: Charlotte Newstead)
RESPIGHI: Ancient Airs and Dances Suite no. 3
LLOYD-JONES: Songs of Summer for soprano and strings (first performance)
DVOŘÁK: Serenade for Strings op. 22

March 2011
DEBUSSY: Danse sacrée et danse profane for harp and strings (Soloist: Megan Garrity)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus’
GRIEG: Holberg Suite
DOWLAND: Lachrimae or Seven Teares
WIRÉN: Serenade for Strings

        November 2010
        ROSSINI: Overture ‘The Italian Girl in Algiers’
                WEBER: Bassoon Concerto (soloist: Thomas Russell Porter)
               MENDELSSOHN: Scherzo and Nocturne (from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’)
     BEETHOVEN: Symphony no. 8

June 2010
CORELLI: Concerto grosso op. 6 no. 8 (“Christmas Concerto”)
HANDEL: Suite in D major for trumpet and strings (Soloist: Colin Bloch)
WARLOCK: Capriol Suite
PURCELL: Sonata no. 1 for trumpet and strings
MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony no. 11
BARTOK: Rumanian Dances

November 2009
BIZET “Jeux d’Enfants” Suite
GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor (Soloist: Rustom Battiwalla)
BIZET: Symphony in C
MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony no. 11
BARTOK: Rumanian Dances

Venues:
United Reformed Church, Henleaze, Bristol
All Saints’ Church, Weston-super-Mare
St Bartholomew’s Church, Lower Failand
Frenchay Parish Church
St Edyth’s Church, Sea Mills
St. Francis Church, Ashton Gate

 

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