Concert Programmes 2010
(Concerts at Chetham’s School, Forum Theatre, Romiley & Gorton Monastery)
March 7th (Chetham’s School of Music)
Suite in D major for trumpet and strings (HWV 341) (Handel) & Concerto for trumpet and strings (Neruda)
Soloist: Jason Evans
Horn Concerto No. 2 in Eb (Mozart)
Soloist: Anna Douglass
Violin Concerto in A minor (Glazounov)
Soloist: Edward Pether
Conductor: NICHOLAS SIMPSON
May 8th (Forum Theatre, Romiley)
Heidi Johnson Memorial Concert
Land of the Mountain and the Flood MacCunn
English Folk Songs Suite Vaughan Willams
Fiddler on the Roof Symphonic Dances Bock
Symphony No. 2 Borodin
Conductor: ANDREW HODKINSON
July 12th (Sunday afternoon concert at Gorton Monastery) 2.30pm
Festive Overture Shostakovich
Four Last Songs Strauss
Soloist: Lorna James(soprano)
Finlandia Sibelius
Scherzo capriccioso Dvorak
In a Summer Garden Delius
Prelude to Act III Lohengrin Wagner
Crown Imperial Walton
Conductor: NICHOLAS SIMPSON
October 17th (Forum Theatre, Romiley)
Godfrey Somech Memorial Concert
Nimrod (Enigma variations) Elgar
Norwegian Rhapsody No. 2 Svendsen
Sonata for Violin and Orchestra Grieg arr. Simpson
Soloist: Michael Vernon
Symphony No. 3 in C major Sibelius
Conductor: NICHOLAS SIMPSON
December 13th (Sunday afternoon at Gorton Monastery) 2pm-4pm
Once in Royal David’s City; Hansel & Gretel Overture (Humperdinck); The Holly and the Ivy; Bells across the Meadow (Ketelbey); Good King Wenceslas; Dusk (from Fancy Dress suite) (C.Armstrong Gibbs); God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen; The Old Clockmaker (Charles Williams); Destiny Waltz (Sidney Baynes); Away in a Manger; Grasshoppers Dance (Bucalossi); Silent Night; Barwick Green (from My Native Heath) (Arthur Wood); Calling all Workers (Eric Coates); O Come All Ye Faithful; Hunt the Squirrel & Dicks Maggot (from English Folk Dances Suite) (Ernest Tomlinson); Hark the Herald Angels Sing; White Christmas (Irving Berlin); Sleigh Ride (Leroy Anderson); Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (brass 7tet arrangement)
Conductor: ANDREW HODKINSON