Repertoire
Winter 2011
WAGNER – Overture to “Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg”
BRUCH – Violin Concerto No. 1 (Jenny Lee, violin)
ELGAR – Symphony No. 3 (elaborated by Anthony Payne)
Summer 2011
GLINKA – Ruslan and Ludmilla
SIBELIUS – Violin Concerto (Roger Huckle, violin)
RACHMANINOV – Symphony No. 2
Spring 2011
BUTTERWORTH – The Banks of Green Willow
VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS – A Pastoral Symphony
HOLST – The Planets
Winter 2010
WILLIAMS – Star Wars, ET, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Harry Potter
BARBER – Adiagio for Strings
ZIMMER – Gladiator, Pirates of The Caribbean
SHORE – Lord of the Rings
MOROSS – The Big Country
ROTA – The Godfather
Plus: James Bond, Wallace and Gromit
Summer 2010
BERNSTEIN – Candide Overture
STRAUSS – Four Last Songs (Charlotte Shipley, soprano)
SHOSTAKOVICH – Symphony No. 10
Spring 2010
DEBUSSY – Danse sacree et danse profane (Julia Hammersley, harp)
RACHMANINOV – Piano Concerto No. 2 (Diana Ionescu, piano)
STRAVINSKY – The Rite of Spring
Autumn 2009
FLOOD – Recits
SCHUBERT- Symphony No. 8 ‘Unfinished’
MAHLER – Symphony No. 5
Summer 2009
‘Last night of the Proms’ favourites
BEETHOVEN- Symphony No. 9
(with the City of Bristol Choir and choirs from local schools)
RACHMANINOV - Piano Concerto No. 3 (Diana Ionescu, piano)
TCHAIKOVSKY - Symphony No. 5
WAGNER – Prelude and Liebestod from ‘Tristan und Isolde’
R. STRAUSS – Ein Heldenleben
MESSIAEN – L’Ascension
BRUCKNER – Symphony No. 7
BRITTEN – Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
(James Atherton, tenor; Mike Fletcher, horn)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS- A London Symphony
GRIEG – Piano Concerto (Diana Ionescu, piano)
NIELSEN – Symphony No. 2, ‘The Four Temperaments’
GOLDING – Flute Piece (Kevan Boll, flute; first performance)
ELGAR – Symphony No. 1
Spring 2007
SIBELIUS – Finlandia
WALTON – Viola Concerto (Alice Billen, viola)
RACHMANINOV – Symphony No. 2
Autumn 2006
ARNOLD – Comedy Overture, ‘Beckus the Dandipratt’
BEETHOVEN – Piano Concerto No. 3 (Elizabeth Burgess, piano)
SHOSTAKOVICH – Symphony No. 5
Summer Celebration with Clifton College 2006
FINZI – Romance for Strings
FINZI – Clarinet Concerto
Summer 2006
SHOSTAKOVICH – Festive Overture
BURGON – Industrial Dreams (first performance – BRUNEL 200 COMMISSION)
SELBY – Fading Light (first performance)
BEETHOVEN – Symphony No. 5
Spring 2006
MOZART – Overture to ‘The Marriage of Figaro’
DEEGAN – Beginning (first performance)
DEBUSSY – Prelude a l’Apres-midi d’un Faune
MUSSORGSKY – Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
Christmas 2005
HANDEL – Messiah
Autumn 2005
BAX – Tintagel
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS – The Lark Ascending (Venetia Bigley, violin)
BRAHMS – Symphony No. 2
Summer 2005
WALTON – Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
DAWES – Mirror Romance (first performance)
BRITTEN – Les Illuminations (Charlotte Shipley, soprano)
SIBELIUS – Symphony No. 2
Spring 2005
WEBER – Overture to ‘Der Freischutz’
ELGAR – Cello Concerto (Madeleine Ridd, cello)
DVORAK – Symphony No.7
