Past Concerts

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17th July 2010. All of Beethoven's (numbered) symphonies in one day at London's South Bank with Martyn Brabbins, LSO Chorus and soloists.

29th June 2010. Malcolm Arnold's graphic Peterloo Overture, Jaroslaw Nadrzycki 'perfect' in Shostakovich Violin Concerto No.1, and Walton's energetic and extrordinary Symphony No.1.

9th March 2010. Mahler's amazing 10th Symphony as realised by Deryck Cooke.

20th October 2009. John McCabe's Symphony Edward II, the first public performance in his 70th anniversary year, complemented a concert scenario (with surtitles) of Prokofiev's sublime Romeo and Juliet.

29th June 2009. Themes from Rossini's William Tell Overture and Wagner's Prelude and Liebestodt heard beofre the interval appear prominently in Shostakovich's unique, final, Symphony No. 15.

3rd March 2009. Britten's sensational Fanfare, his Violin Concerto wonderfully played by Sara Trickey, and sumptuous American-premired Bohemian pieces from Dvork and Martinu.

2nd November 2008. A concert at Cheltenham Town Hall conducted by Martyn Brabbins, with music from Holst's friends Cecil Coles and George Butterworth as well as Julia Lloyd Webber playing Holst's Invocation, and concluding with The Planets.

14th October 2008. The extra brass in the banda topped a thrilling end to Shostakovich Festive Overture. Haverhill Competition prize winner Tamas Balla played beautifully in Strauss' Oboe Concerto. The dynamics increased again for Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, still stunning 95 years after its Paris premire.

18th May 2008. A Sunday evening concert of Messiaen L'Ascension (in his centenary year), Weber Bassoon Concerto never sounding more virtuosic or musical in the hands of Robin O'Neil, and Saint-Sans Organ Symphony.

12th February 2008. Mendelssohn for wind, Sibelius' last symphony and Richard Strauss' Ein Heldenleben. "The real hero was Anna Ritchie, the orchestras leader, whose violin solos (depicting Pauline, Strausss wife) graced the performance in superb style." Edward Clark, classicalsource.com.

9th October 2007. A spellbinding performance by Mandy Burvill of Magnus Lindberg's Clarinet Concert, with Ravel's colourful Rapsodie Espagnol and Rachmaninov's gorgeous 3rd Symphony.

8th July 2007. The Dvorkathon at the Cheltenham International Music Festival - all of the symphonies in one day.

22nd May 2007. 3 works premired in Paris: Lalo Le Roi D'Ys, Prokofiev 1st Violin Concerto and Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique.

6th February 2007. A full St John's for Mahler's huge 6th Symphony.

17th October 2006. Some little known but beautiful Tchaikovsky, Walton's Cello Concerto and Prokofiev's great 6th Symphony.

23rd May 2006. Ravel visits Vienna in La Valse, Rimsky-Korsakov in the East with Scheherezade, and Falla at home with El amor brujo.