Next concert
Saturday, 9th July 2022, 7.30pm, Bournville Parish Church, St Francis of Assisi, Sycamore Road, Birmingham B30 2AA.
Programme:
- Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 2, "The Four Temperaments", Op.16
- Edvard Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Op.64
- Jean Sibelius: Finlandia, Op.26
Recent concerts
Saturday, 8th February 2020, 7.30pm, St Hilda's Church, Warley Woods, Smethwick B67 5NQ.
Programme:
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Egmont Overture
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 - Soloist : Liang Shan
- Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.3
Saturday, 13th July 2019, 7.30pm, in St. Francis' Church, Bournville.
Conductor: Jon Hargreaves
Saturday, 9 February 2019, 7.30pm, at the Ruddock Performing Arts Centre.
Conductor: Jon Hargreaves
Saturday, 13th July 2018, 7.30pm, at the Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
- Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Tallis
- Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden
- Butterworth: Rhapsody on "A Shropshire Lad"
- Holst: Suite from "A Perfect Fool"
- R. Strauss: Suite for Winds
- Walton, Suite for "Henry V"
Conductor: Jon Hargreaves
Saturday, 10 February 2018, 7.30pm, at the Ruddock Performing Arts Centre.
- Mussorgsky – Night on a Bare Mountain
- Borodin – In the Steppes of Central Asia
- Rachmaninov – Isle of the Dead
- Tchaikovsky – Symphony No.6 ‘Pathétique’
Conductor: Jon Hargreaves
Other past concerts
- Summer 2017, featuring: the Wesendonck
Lieder by Wagner with soloist Paula Sides, Wagner's Prelude to Tristan
und Isolde, and Bruckner's Symphony No. 7.
- Winter 2017, featuring: Elgar, Prelude to The Dream of Gerontius, Enigma Variations; Sibelius, Karelia Suite; and Franck, Le Chasseur Maudit
- Summer 2016, featuring Beethoven's
overture, Leonore number 3, Dvořák's Cello Concerto (Soloist:
Thomas McMahon) and Brahms' Symphony number 4
- Spring 2016, featuring movements
from Má Vlast by Smetana and Dvořák's Symphony number 5
- Autumn 2015, featuring Mendelssohn's
Overture "Ruy Blas",
Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor (soloist Liang Shan), and
Schumann's fourth Symphony
- Summer 2015, featuring Shostakovich's
Scherzo for orchestra in F sharp minor,
Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major (soloist Michael Bochmann) and
Tchaikovsky's Symphony number 5 in E minor
- Winter 2015, featuring Berlioz's
Symphonie Fantastique, as well as Weber's Overture to 'Der Freischütz'
and Dvořák's tone poem 'Polednice' (The Noonday Witch)
- Summer 2014, featuring Strauss's Four Last Songs
(soloist: Paula Sides) and Mahler's first symphony.
- Winter 2014, featuring Sibelius's ‘Finlandia’
and second symphony, and also Grieg's Symphonic dances
- Summer 2013, with Wagner's Overture "Rienzi",
Liszt's Tone poem "Les Préludes", Wagner's prelude to Act III of Lohengrin, and
Brahms's Symphony Number 2 in D major
- Winter 2013, featuring Schubert's
symphony number 8 (The Unfinished) and Bruckner's symphony number
9.
