Summer 2024
13th July 7.30pm, Shirley Methodist Church
- Bizet’s Arlesienne Suites
- Franck’s Symphony in D minor
Winter 2024
10th February 7.30pm, St Francis’s, Bournville
- Humperdinck’s Overture to Hansel and Gretel
- Reinecke’s Flute Concerto, with Emma Brown
- Brahms’ First Symphony
Summer 2023
8th July 7.30pm, St Francis’s, Bournville
- Carwithen’s Overture – One Damn Thing after Another
- Bridge’s The Sea
- Elgar’s First Symphony
Winter 2023
11th February 7.30pm, Shirley Methodist Church
- Shostakovich’s Festive Overture
- Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto, with Charlotte Moseley
- Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony
Winter 2020
Saturday, 8th February 2020, 7.30pm, St Hilda’s Church, Warley Woods, Smethwick
- Beethoven’s Egmont Overture
- Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, with Liang Shan
- Brahms’ Third Symphony
Summer 2019
Saturday, 13th July 2019, 7.30pm, St Francis’s Church, Bournville.
- Tchaikovsky’s Suite from Swan Lake
- Khachaturian’s Spartacus Suite No. 2
- Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre
- Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances, from Prince Igor
- Rossini, orch. Britten: Soirées Musicales
Winter 2019
9 February 2019, Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
- Grieg’s Peer Gynt
- Brahms’ Double Concerto, with Michael Bochmann and Peter Adams
- Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony
Summer 2018
13 July, 7.30pm, Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
- Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
- Walk to the Paradise Garden
- Rhapsody on A Shropshire Lad
- Suite from A Perfect Fool
- Suite for Winds
- Walton’s Suite for Henry V
Winter 2018
10th February, 7.30pm, Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
- Mussorgsky’s Night on a Bare Mountain
- Borodin’s In the Steppes of Central Asia
- Rachmaninov’s Isle of the Dead
- Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony
Summer 2017
15th July, 7.30pm, Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
- Wagner’s Prelude to Tristan und Isolde
- Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, with Paula Sides
- Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony
Winter 2017
11th February, 7.30pm, Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
- Elgar’s Prelude to The Dream of Gerontius
- Franck’s Le Chasseur Maudi
- Sibelius’ Karelia Suite
- Elgar’s Enigma variations
Summer 2016
16th July 7.30pm, Shirley Methodist Church
- Beethoven’s overture, Leonore number 3
- Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, with Thomas McMahon
- Brahms’ Fourth Symphony
Spring 2016
12th March, 7.30pm, Shirley Methodist Church
- Janáček Lachian Dances 1,2,6
- Tábor and Blaník from Má Vlast by Smetana
- Symphony number 5 by Dvořák
Autumn 2015
28th November, 7.30pm, Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
- Mendelssohn: Overture “Ruy Blas”
- Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor (soloist Liang Shan)
- Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor
Summer 2015
18th July, Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
- Shostakovich’s Scherzo for orchestra in F sharp minor
- Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, with Michael Bochmann
- Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony
Winter 2015
7th February, Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
- Weber’s Overture to Der Freischütz
- Dvořák’s Tone poem ‘Polednice’ (The Noonday Witch)
- Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique
Summer 2014
19th July, 7.30pm, Ruddock Performing Arts Centre
- Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs, with Paula Sides of the English Touring Opera
- Mahler’s First Symphony
Winter 2014
25th January 2014 at Shirley Methodist Church, and 1st February 2014 at St Francis’ Church, Bournville.
- Sibelius’ Finlandia
- Grieg’s Symphonic dances
- Sibelius’ Second Symphony
Summer 2013
13th July 2013 at Shirley Methodist Church, and 20th July 2013 at St Francis’ Church, Bournville.
- Wagner’s Overture “Rienzi”
- Liszt’s Tone poem “Les Préludes”
- Wagner’s Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin
- Brahms’ Second Symphony
Winter 2013
2nd February at 7.30pm in Shirley Methodist Church, and 9th February 7.30pm in St Francis’, Bournville.
- Schubert’s Eighth Symphony (unfinished)
- Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony
Summer 2012
- Elgar’s Cockaigne Overture
- Coates’s Westminster (Meditation), from London Suite
- Walton’s March from Crown Imperial
- Vaughan-Williams’ A London Symphony
Winter 2012
- Sibelius’ Valse Triste
- Sibelius’ Violin Concerto, with Michael Bochmann
- Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony
Summer 2011
- Verdi’s Overture La Forza del Destino
- Liszt’s Faust
- Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
Winter 2011
- Rimsky-Korsakov’s Overture on Russian Themes
- Rachmaninov’s The Rock
- Rachmaninov’s Capriccio on Gypsy Themes (“Caprice bohémien”)
- Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto, with Philip Fowke
Summer 2010
- Elgar’s Bavarian Dances
- Elgar’s Chanson de Nuit
- Elgar’s Chanson de Matin
- Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony
Winter 2010
- Dvořák’s Carnival Overture
- Dvořák’s Five Slavonic Dances:
- Op. 46 no. 3 Polka
- Op. 72 no. 2 Starodávný
- Op. 46 no. 6 Sousedská
- Op. 72 no. 8 Sousedská
- Op. 46 no. 8 Furiant
- Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, with Michael Bochmann
Summer 2009
- Bizet’s Carmen Suite no. 1
- Rodriguez’s Cocierto de Aranjuez, with Liz Larner
- Sibelius’s First Symphony
Winter 2009
- Strauss’ Overture to “Die Fledermaus”
- Grieg’s Norwegian Dances
- Brahms’ First Symphony
Summer 2008
- Vaughan-Williams’ The Lark Ascending, with Amy Littlewood on 12 July, and Michael Bochmann on 19th July
- Vaughan-Williams’ (arr. Jacob) Suite on English Folk Songs
- Vaughan-Williams’ Job
Winter 2008
Birmingham Town Hall
- Mendelssohn’s Overture The Hebrides
- Vaughan-Williams’ (arr. Jacob): Suite on English Folk Songs
- Lucas (arr. Differ): The Magic Jigsaw (with Blue Coat School Choir, soloists and Nick Owen – narrator)
- Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony
Summer 2007
- Elgar’s Overture Froissart
- Elgar’s Cello Concerto, with Graham Morris
- Schumann’s First Symphony
Winter 2007
- Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
- Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (soloist: Jackie Hill)
- Dvořák: Symphony no. 9 (“From the New World”)
Summer 2006
- Mozart: Voi che sapete from The Marriage of Figaro (soprano: Holly Brain)
- Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 21 in C major, K. 467 (soloist: Sachika Taniyama)
- Puccini: “Signore, ascolta!” from Turandot (soprano soloist: Holly Brain)
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Suite from The Tale of Tsar Sultan (including The Flight of the Bumblebee: xylophone solo: Amy Littlewood)
- Berlioz: Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust
Winter 2006
- Borodin: Overture to Prince Igor
- Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite no. 2
- Tchaikovsky: Slavonic March
- Tchaikovsky: Fantasy Overture Romeo and Juliet
- Borodin orch. Rimsky-Korsakov: “Polovtsian Dances” from Prince Igor
Summer 2005
- Rachmaninov: Vocalise (soloist: Rebecca Buswell – soprano)
- Bruch: Violin Concerto no. 1 in G minor (soloist: Jackie Hill)
- Smetana: “Vltava” and “Blaník”, from Má Vlast
Winter 2005
- Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville
- Mozart: Letter Duet from The Marriage of Figaro
- Canteloube (arr.): Berceuse (Brezairola) from Songs of the Auvergne
- Bizet: Seguedilla from Carmen
- Flinn: Love Lives Beyond
- Purcell: Dido’s Lament from Dido and Aeneas
- Delibes: Flower Duet from Lakme (soprano soloists: Charlotte Derry and Leanne Flinn)
- Dvořák: Symphony no. 8
Summer 2004
- Faure: Pavane
- Bach: Orchestral Suite no. 3
- Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 4 in A (“Italian”)
Winter 2004
- Butterworth’s The Banks of Green Willow
- Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A major, K.488, with Anita D’Attellis
- Laurence Davies’ Overture in C minor
- Beethoven’s Second Symphony
Summer 2003
- Haydn’s Symphony no. 104 “London”
- Mozart’s Symphony no. 35 “Haffner”
Winter 2003
- Bizet’s Carmen Suite no. 1
- Schubert’s Eighth Symphony (Unfinished)
- Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony
Summer 2002
- Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, with Amy Monkhouse
- Schumann’s Fourth Symphony
Spring 2002
- Beethoven’s Overture to Fidelio
- Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances (from opus 46: F major, C minor and G minor)
- Brahms’s Third Symphony
Winter 2001
- Mozart’s Overture to The Magic Flute
- Grieg’s Peer Gynt, Suite no. 1
- Franck’s Symphony in D minor