History of concerts 1980–1989

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Date  Venue        Composer            Work - Soloist(s)                

27-Jan-1980   
Programme

 

 

 

Town Hall

Dvorák

Brahms

Grainger

Sibelius

Symphony No 8

Academic Festival Overture

Irish Tune from County Derry

Karelia Suite

15-Jun-1980
Programme

Town Hall 

Rossini 

Beethoven

Delius

Bizet

Overture: The Thieving Magpie

Symphony No 5

Walk to the Paradise Garden

Carmen Suite 

19-Oct-1980
Programme

Town Hall 

Wagner 

Khachaturian

Vaughan Williams

Borodin

Prelude to Die Mesitersinger

Adagio from Spartacus

English Folk Song Suite

Symphony No 2

1-Mar-1981
Programme

Town Hall

Beethoven

Rachmaninov

Grieg

Dvorák

Fidelio Overture

Vocalise

Peer Gynt Suite No 1

Symphony No 9 (New World) 

7-Jun-1981
Programme

Winter Garden 

Beethoven 

Ravel

Grieg


Schubert

Walton

Egmont Overture

Pavane pour Une Infante Defunte

Piano Concerto
soloist: John York

Symphony No 8 (unfinished)

Coronation March: Orb & Sceptre

18-Oct-1981
Programme

 

Beethoven

Mendelssohn


Brahms

Corian Overture

Violin Concerto
soloist: Richard Deakin

Symphony No 2 

28-Feb-1982
Programme

Town Hall

Mendelssohn

Finzi


Schumann

Fingal's Cave Overture

Dies Natalis
soloist: Andrew King

Symphony No 1

23-May-1982
Programme

Winter Garden

Weber

Beethoven


Sibelius

Delius

Chabrier

Overture: Der Freischutz

Piano Concerto No 4
soloist: Benjamin Frith

Karelia Suite

Walk to the Paradise Garden

España

17-Oct-1982
Programme

Town Hall

Humperdink

Walton

Britten-Rossini

Tchaikovsky

Hansel & Gretel Prelude 

Music for Strings from the film Henry V

Soirees Musicales

Symphony No 2

20-Feb-1983
Programme

Town Hall

Glinka

Elgar

Bizet

Dvorák

Overture: Ruslan & Lyudmila

Serenade for Strings

L'Arlesienne Suite No 2

Symphony No 7

5-Jun-1983
Programme

St Saviour's Church   

Vaughan Williams

Haydn

Parry

Elgar

Walton

Walton

The Wasps Overture

Symphony No 104 (The London)

Blest Pair of Sirens

Dream Children

Music for Strings from the film Henry V

March: Crown Imperial

23-Oct-1983
Programme

Town Hall

Beethoven

Bruch


Brahms

King Stephen Overture

Violin Concerto
soloist: Debbie Crane

Symphony No 1

19-Feb-1984
Programme

Town Hall

MacCunn

Schumann


Beethoven

Land of the Mountain and the Flood 

Cello Concerto
soloist: Stephen Donovan

Symphony No 6 (Pastoral)

29-Apr-1984
Programme

St Saviour's Church

Handel

Britten

Parry

Brahms

Vaughan Williams

Zadok The Priest

Simple Symphony

I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me

Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny)

Five Mystical Songs
soloist: Simon Deller

27-May-1984
Programme

Winter Garden

Elgar

Mozart

Rachmaninov

Handel Overture in D Minor

Symphony No 41 (The Jupiter)

Piano Concerto No 2
soloist: John York

28-Oct-1984
Programme

Winter Garden

Quilter

Saint-Saëns


Ravel

Morris-Sager


Fauré

A Children's Overture

Carnival of the Animals
narrator: Peter Allington

Bolero

Delilah the Sensitive Cow
narrator: Johnny Morris

Dolly Suite

17-Feb-1985
Programme

Town Hall

Elgar

Mozart


Sibelius

Frossart Overture

Flute & Harp Concerto
soloists: Louise Glanville & Ruth Faber

Symphony No 2 

19-May-1985
Programme

Winter Garden

Tchaikovsky

Beethoven

Gershwin

March Slave

Symphony No 1

Piano Concerto
soloist: Martin Roscoe

16-Jun-1985
Programme

St Saviour's Church

Handel


Albinoni

Brahms


Durufle

Aria:  Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened
soloist: Simon Deller

Adagio

Alto Rhapsody
soloist:  Marion Dodd

Requiem
soloists:  Marion Dodd, Simon Deller

20-Oct-1985
Programme

Town Hall

Nicolai

Rodrigo


Beethoven

Overture:  Merry Wives of Windsor

Guitar Concerto
soloist:  Robert Brightmore

Symphony No 3

15-Dec-1985
Programme

The Hippodrome

Humperdink

Delius

Sibelius

Corelli


Tchaikovsky

Hansel & Gretel Prelude

Sleigh Ride

Finlandia

Concerto Grosso in G Minor Op 6 No 8
soloists:  Lisa Wigmore, Robert Bowley, Peter Allington

Nutcracker Suite

 

23-Feb-1986
Programme

Winter Garden

Rossini

Mozart


Schumann


Gershwin


Tchaikovsky

Overture:  The Thieving Magpie

Piano Concerto No 21 K467 (2nd mov)
soloist:  Jane Gow

Concertstuck for Four Horns
soloists:  Ron Harris, Nicholas Korth,
Stuart Korth, Graham Hill

Rhapsody in Blue
soloist:  John York

Overture: 1812

1-Jun-1986
Programme

Congress Theatre

Wagner

Mozart

Debussy

Tchaikovsky

Prelude to Die Mesitersinger

Symphony No 40

Clair de Lune

Piano Concerto No 1
soloist: John York

22-Jun-1986
Programme

St Saviour's Church

Vaughan Williams


Elgar


Mozart

Serenade to Music
soloists:  Helen Charnock, Marion Dodd,
Aubrey McClintock, Timothy Woolford

Sea Pictures
soloist:  Marion Dodd

Requiem
soloists:  Helen Charnock, Marion Dodd,
Aubrey McClintock, Timothy Woolford

19-Oct-1986
Programme

Winter Garden

Rossini

Saint-Saëns


Bliss

Tchaikovsky

Overture:  William Tell

Piano Concerto No 2
soloist: John York

Suite - Things to Come

Overture:  Romeo & Juliet

21-Dec-1986
Programme

Winter Garden

Quilter

Elgar

Bach

Hutchinson

A Children's Overture

Chanson de Matin, de Nuit

Brandenburg Concerto No 3

A Carol Symphony

22-Feb-1987
Programme

Congress Theatre

Weber

Mozart


Dvorák

Overture: Oberon

Clarinet Concerto
soloist:  Keith Puddy

Symphony No 6

17-May-1987
Programme

Congress Theatre

Verdi

Requiem
soloists: Helen Charnock, Marion Dodd,
Michael Roberts, Timothy Woolford

28-Jun-1987
Programme

Congress Theatre 

Shostakovich 

Schubert

Rachmaninov

Festive Overture

Symphony No 5 

Piano Concerto No 1
soloist:  Martin Roscoe

4-Oct-1987
Programme

Congress Theatre 

Walton 

Grainger

Debussy

Saints-Saëns

Prokofiev

Spitfire Prelude & Fugue

Londonderry Air 

Children's Corner Suite

Danse Macabre

Peter and the Wolf
narrator:  Anna Wing

20-Dec-1987
Programme

The Winter Garden

Mozart 

Torelli


Mozart


Williams (Charles)

Addinsell

Sibelius

Overture:  The Marriage of Figaro

Christmas Concerto
soloists:  Lisa Wigmore and Robert Bowley 

Concerto Rondo in D for Piano & Orchestra
soloists:  Kenneth Lewis

The Dream of Olwen

Warsaw Concerto

Karelia Suite

21-Feb-1988
Programme

Congress Theatre
conductor: John Capaldi

Bennett

Haydn

Brahms

Farnham Festival Overture

Symphony No 100 (Military)

Violin Concerto
soloist:   Anna Joseph

15-May-1988
Programme

Congress Theatre 

Gershwin


Beethoven

Tchaikovsky

Rhapsody in Blue
soloist:  Ann Davis 

Triple Concerto
soloists:  Sophie Barber, Rebecca Holt,
Robert Max

Symphony No 4

19-Jun-1988
Programme

Congress Theatre

Glinka 

Borodin

Orff

Overture:  Ruslan & Lyudmila

Polovtsian Dances 

Carmina Burana
soloists:  Penelope Randall-Davis,
Richard Sweden, Mark Peterson

16-Oct-1988
Programme

Congress Theatre

Berlioz

Ravel

Saint-Saëns

Bizet

Poulenç


Massenet

Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust

Pavane pour une Infante Defunte

Le Rouet d'Omphale

Carmen Suite No 1

Concerto in D Minor for two pianos
soloists:  John & Fiona York

Suite No 3, Final Scene

18-Dec-1988
Programme

 

The Winter Garden
conductor: John Capaldi

Wagner

Wagner

Schumann


Handel

Massenet

Grieg

Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin

Siegfried Idyll

Piano Concerto in A minor (1st movement)
soloists:  Jane Gow

Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

Meditation from Thais
soloist:  Lisa Wigmore 

Peer Gynt Suite No 1 

19-Feb-1989
Programme

Congress Theatre

Brahms 

Schubert

Mozart


Schumann

Academic Festival Overture

Ballet Music from Rosamunde

Horn Concerto No 4 K495
soloist:  Nicholas Korth

Symphony No 3 (The Rhenish)

23-Apr-1989
Programme

Congress Theatre 

Vaughan Williams

Dohnanyi


Dvorák

Overture The Wasps

Variations on a Nursery Song
soloist:  Julian Saphir

Cello Concerto
soloist:  Caroline Dale

11-Jun-1989
Programme

Congress Theatre

Parry

Platts

Vaughan Williams

Blest Pair of Sirens

Dance Canticles

A Sea Symphony

15-Oct-1989
Programme

Congress Theatre

Elgar

Mozart


Dvorák

Cockaigne Overture

Flute Concerto No 1 in G
soloist:  Karen Jones

Symphony No 7

17-Dec-1989
Programme

The Winter Garden

Mozart

Fauré

Handel


Sibelius

Prokofiev

Overture:  The Magic Flute

Pavane pour une Infante Defunte

Concerto Grosso in G minor Op 6 No 6
soloist:  Lisa Wigmore

Finlandia

Lieutenant Kije Suite