Programme for 2019-20

12 October 2019 at St Michaels Bedford Park W4 [5 rehearsals from 10 September]

  • Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute [2222/2230/T stgs]
  • Schubert: Unfinished Symphony [2222/2230/T stgs]
  • Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (with selected text) featuring actors from Arts Educational Schools, Chiswick [2222/2331/T p – SA solo f-ch stgs actors]

23 November 2019 at St Barnabas Pitshanger Lane W5 [6 rehearsals from 15 October]

  • Brahms: Tragic Overture [3(1.2.p)222/4231/T stgs]
  • Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings [stgs solo hn and tenor] soloists James Hutchings and Chris Eyre
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No.15 [3(1.2.p)222/4231/T p cel stgs]

08 December 2019 at St Michaels Bedford Park W4 – Children’s Concert [2 rehearsals from 26 November][

  • Leroy Anderson: A Christmas Festival
  • Vivaldi: ‘Winter’ from “The Four Seasons” (1st movement) [Strings]
  • Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez (arr. Bob Krogstad): Music from Frozen
  • Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite: 2a. March
  • Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite: 2c. Trepak
  • Benj Pasek, Justin Paul (arr. Sean O’Loughlin): The Greatest Showman Medley
  • Prokofiev: Troika (from Lieutenant Kijé)
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas (sing-along)
  • Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride

8 February at St Michaels Bedford Park W4 [5 rehearsals from 7 January]

  • Vaughan-Willams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis [stgs]
  • Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Winds [0200/2000 stgs solo ob cl fg cor] soloists Bruno Bower, Andrew Keck, Chris Eyre, Carolyn Sewell
  • Brahms: Symphony No.2 [2222/4231/T stgs]

28 March 2020 at St Barnabas Pitshanger Lane W5 [CANCELLED; to be rescheduled for 2020-21]

  • Mahler: Symphony No.7 [5(1.2.3.4.p) 4(1.2.3.ca) 4(1.2.3.bcl) 4(1.2.3.cfg) / 4331+t.hn / T p 2Hp mand gtr stgs]

6th June 2020 at St John’s Smith Square [CANCELLED; to be rescheduled for 2020-21]

  • Kabalevsky: Colas Breugnon Overture [3+p 3 3 2+cfg/4331/T 5p hp stgs]
  • Barbara Thompson: Saxophone Concerto soloist Jonathan Radford [2(p) 2(ca) 2(bcl) 2/4431/T p cel pno stgs solo sax]  soloist Jonathan Radford
  • Holst: The Planets [4(1.2.3/p1.4/afl/p2) 4(1.2.3/bob.ca) 4 (1.2.3.bcl) 4(1.2.3.cfg) / 6432(t+b) / 2T 4p 2Hp cel org     f ch stgs]

4 July 2020 at St Annes Kew [CANCELLED; to be re-scheduled for 2020-21]

  • Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks [0202/3300 /T stgs]
  • Mozart: Flute & Harp Concerto [0200/2000 stgs solo fl hp] soloists Derek Benton and Catrin Meek
  • Haydn: Symphony no 104 [2222/2200 /T stgs]