2016 Concerts

2016 Concert programmes

Saturday 27th February 2016

Romiley Forum Theatre

Concert conducted by Juan Ortuño

Leader: John Resek

Three Dances – Granados

Violin Concerto No.1 – Bruch

Soloist ~ Alla Petrichei

(Royal Northern School of Music)

Symphony No.5 – Dvořák

*****

Saturday 7th May 2016

Heaton Moor United Church

Concert conducted by Marco Bellasi

Leader: John Resek

Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale – Brahms

Ballet Suite from Faust – Gounod

Night on a Bare Mountain – Mussorgsky

Symphony No.5 (Reformation) – Mendelssohn

Ritorna età dell’oro (Infelice) – Mendelssohn

Soloists ~ Lorna Rushton (Soprano)
and John Resek (Violin)

*****

Sunday 10th July 2016

The Gorton Monastery

Concert conducted by Juan Ortuño

Leader: John Resek

Summer Proms Concert

Overture: Portsmouth Point – Walton

Peter and the Wolf – Prokofiev

Narrator: David Schofield

Violetta’s Aria (La Traviata) – Verdi

Soprano Soloist: Lorna Rushton

** INTERVAL **

Jupiter (The Planets) – Holst

Summertime – Gershwin

Soprano Soloist: Lorna Rushton

Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 – Elgar

Czardas (Die Fledermaus) – Johann Strauss

Soprano Soloist: Lorna Rushton

Fantasia on British Sea Songs – Henry Wood

Jerusalem – Parry

Rule Brittania – Arne

*****

Saturday 22nd October 2016

Concert in Memory of
John Boydell

Romiley Forum Theatre

Concert conducted by Juan Ortuño

Leader: John Resek

Symphony No.1 (movt iii) – Elgar

Helios Overture – Nielsen

Sigurd Jorsalfar Suite – Grieg

Symphony No.2 – Sibelius

*****

Sunday 11th December

at Gorton Monastery (2pm to 4:30pm)

A Christmas Concert with carols

Concert conducted by Juan Ortuño

Leader: John Resek

A festive afternoon concert of carols for the audience to sing interspersed with favourites played by the orchestra, including

Christmas Overture (Hess)

Sleeping Beauty (Tchaikovsky)

Carmen Fantasy (Saraste)

Soloist ~ Alla Petrichei (Violin)

Dance of the Tumblers (Rimsky-Korsakov)

White Christmas (Irving Berlin)

Westminster Waltz (Robert Farnon)

Dance of the Hours (Ponchielli)

Blue Danube (Johann Strauss)

(encore) – Sleigh Ride (Leroy Anderson)