Friday 11th May 1973 7:45 pm
Conductor: John Crossdale
Belle Vue Gardens
Thomas Overture Raymonde
Elgar Enigma Variations
Songs (*Mezzo-soprano Joanne Moore)
Bizet Seguidilla (Carmen)*
Rossini Non piu mesta (La Cenerentola)*
Verdi O don Fatale (Don Carlo)*
Brahms Symphony No. 4
Mayerbeer Coronation March Le Prophete
Rodgers Carousel
Berlioz March Hongroise (Rakoczy)
Waldteufal Grenadiers Waltz
Friday 8th June 1973 7:45 pm
Conductor: John Crossdale
Belle Vue Gardens
Rossini Overture Silken Ladder
Copland Variations on a shaker melody
Kodaly Intermezzo from Hary Janos
Di Lasso Canzone
Mozart Eine Kliene Nachtmusik
Kesnar Intermezzo
Frank Symphony in D minor (1st movement)
Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien
Svendsen Norwegian Rhapshodie No 1
Songs (tenor Allan Baldwin)
Handel Silent Worship (Ptolemy)
Haydn In native worth (Creation)
Lehmann Ah! Moon of my delight (In a Persian garden)
Offenbach Legend of Kleinzach (Tales of Hoffman)
Sullivan Selection from Mikado
Friday 6th July 1973 7:45 pm
Conductor: John Crossdale
Belle Vue Gardens
Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Traditional In cellar cool
Strauss Waltz Blue Danube
Songs (Soprano Enid Powell)
Schubert Hark! Hark! The lark
Mozart Deh vieni non tardar (Marriage of Figaro)
Mozart Voi che sapete (Marriage of Figaro)
Beethoven Symphony No. 5 (1st movement)
Wagner Grand March Tannhauser
Bach Jesu Joy of Man’s Desire
Brahms Hungarian Dances
Songs:
Dvorak Rusalka’s song to the moon
Lehar Meine Lippen, sie kussen so heis (Giuditta)
Adams Holy City
Romberg Selection from Student Prince
Friday 3rd August 1973 7:45 pm
Conductor: John Crossdale
Belle Vue Gardens
Rossini Barber of Seville overture
Grieg Lyric suite
Songs (Soprano Madeleine Bruce)
Rossini Una voce poco fa (Barber of Seville)
Gounod Jewel Scene (Faust)
Gounod Jewel Song (Faust)
German Welsh Rhapsody
Wood Suite ‘My Native Health’
Smetena Three dances from Bartered Bride
Songs:
Novello My dearest dear (Dancing Years)
Trad Eriskey love lilt
Strauss The laughing song (Die Fledermaus)
Coates March: The Dambusters
Friday 5th October 1973 7:45 pm
Conductor: John Crossdale
Belle Vue Gardens
MacCunn Land of the mountain and flood
Rossini/Respighi La Boutique Fantastique
Songs (Soprano Kathleen Lewis, Baritone Alan Roscoe)
Verdi Super vorreste (The Masked Ball)
Leoncavallo Prologue (I Pagliacci)
Walton Facade Suite
Rossini William Tell Overture
Massenet Meditation from Thais
Coates London Suite
Songs
Mozart Bei Mannern (Magic Flute)
Mozart La ci darem la mano (Don Giovanni)
Stolz/Benatsky Selection from White Horse Inn
Balfe Selection from Bohemian Girl
Friday 7th September 1973 7:45 pm
Conductor: John Crossdale
Belle Vue Gardens
Beethoven Leonora Overture No. 3
Holst Mars from the Planets Suite
Songs (Baritone Ray Clarke)
Gounod Mephistopheles Serenade (Faust)
Gounod Song of the Golden Calf (Fause)
Bizet Toreador Song (Carmen)
Dvorak Symphony No. 9 (last movement)
Mendelssohn Midsummer Night’s Dream overture
Sibelius Karelia Suite
Songs
Rodgers This nearly was mine (South Pacific)
Boch If I were a rich man (Fiddler on the Roof)
Ravel Bolero
Saturday 8th December 1973 7:30 pm
Conductor: John Crossdale
Belle Vue Garden
Wagner Ride of the Valkyries
Altrincham Choral Society (conducted by Barrie Allan)
Bach Zion hears the watchmen’s voices (Sleepers wake)
Handel And the glory of the Lord (Messiah)
Handel For unto us a child is born (Messiah)
Rachmaninov Piano concerto No. 2
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade (Nos 1 and 3)
Ponchielli Dance of the hours
Altrincham Choral Society
Trad West Indian arr. Sargent The virgin Mary had a baby boy
Trad French arr. Willcocks Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing
Broadhurst arr. Sargent The cowboy carol
Handel Hallelujah Chorus (Messiah)