Programme for 2022-23

2022 / 23 Season

15th October, 7.00pm at St John’s Smith Square SW1 – 50th Anniversary of West London Sinfonia  

  • Steve Block: Fanfare for Time
  • Kabalevsky: Overture to Colas Breugnon
  • Barbara Thompson: Concerto for 3 saxophones (soloist Jonathan Radford)
  • Holst: The Planets

Conductor: Philip Hesketh
Leader: Iwona Boesche

 26th November 2022, 7.30pm at St. Michael and All Angels W4

  • Elgar: Froissart
  • Brahms: Symphony no. 3
  • Dvorak: Symphonic Variations

Conductor: Philip Hesketh
Leader: Iwona Boesche

11th December 2022, time tbc but afternoon, at St. Michael and All Angels W4

Children’s concert

  • The Snowman (Howard Blake/Raymond Briggs)

Conductor: Philip Hesketh
Leader: Iwona Boesche

28th January 2023, 4.00pm at St. Michael and All Angels

  • Finzi: Romance
  • Kilar: Orawa
  • R Strauss: Suite for Winds op 4
  • Jim Parker: A Londoner in New York

Conductor: Philip Hesketh
Leader: Iwona Boesche

11th March 2023, 7.30pm  at St. Barnabas Pitshanger Lane W5

  • Sibelius: Symphony no 3 [32222/4230 T stgs]
  • Gershwin: [Rhapsody in Blue 2.2.2+bcl+2asax+tensax.2/3331/T p stgs solo piano]
  • Respighi: Pines of Rome [3(picc).2+cor.2+bcl.2+cta/4.3+offstage.6flugel.4 T P organ cel pno gramophone stgs]

Conductor: Philip Hesketh
Leader: Iwona Boesche

10th June 2023, 7.30pm at St. Barnabas Pitshanger Lane W5

  • Sibelius: Finlandia [2222/4331/T p stgs]
  • Takemitsu: Green
  • Holst: The Perfect Fool
  • Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony

Conductor: Philip Hesketh
Leader: Iwona Boesche

8th July 2023, 7.30pm at St. Anne’s Kew Green TW9 [4 rehearsals from 13 June]

  • Mendelssohn: Die Schone Melusine overture
  • Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante soloists Iwona Boesche (violin), Bruno Bower (oboe), Rebecca Lewis (cello), Glyn Williams (bassoon)
  • Beethoven: Symphony no. 1

Conductor: Philip Hesketh
Leader: Iwona Boesche