Forthcoming Concerts
We'd love you to come and see and hear us! Concert evenings always offer a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere with wine available during the interlude. Headline programmes of the upcoming concert(s) are below. For details on how to purchase tickets, please contact the relevant venue.
We look forward to seeing you!
Guildhall, Bath
Memorial Concert for Leonora Franks
Beethoven – Leonora Overture No.2
Brahms – Violin Concerto
Soloist Nadia Myerscough
Dvorak – Symphony No.8 in G Op.88
The Forum, Bath
Wagner – Tannhauser Overture
Sibelius – Karelia
Walton – Symphony No.1 in Bb min
Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford upon Avon
Khachaturian – Masquerade Suite
Stravinsky – The Firebird Suite
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 2 (Little Russian)
Here's some of the stuff you've missed!
To get a flavour of the works presented by the Orchestra, perhaps read some of our press reviews, or take a look below at the details of past programmes...
Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon
Berlioz: Overture King Lear
Reinecke: Flute Concerto
Soloist : Sally Stocks
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite 1, Op46
Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
Berlioz’ King Lear overture which opens the concert typically combines extraordinary originality with high drama with brilliant orchestration. An unjustly neglected concerto, the lovely Reinecke flute concerto, follows. The second half of the concert begins with Grieg’s popular Peer Gynt music before the biting brilliance of Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements.
The Forum, Bath
Vaughan Williams: Overture The Wasps
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2 (London)
Elgar’s much loved Enigma Variations, affectionately dedicated to “my friends pictured within” are complemented by Vaughan Williams’ equally affectionate musical portrait of London, its inhabitants and its irrepressible vitality. The concert opens with VW’s overture ‘The Wasps’
The Guildhall
Mozart: Symphony No. 35 (Haffner)
Bottesini: Grand Duo for violin and double-bass
Soloists: David Heyes and Catherine Lord
Beethoven: Overture
The Consecration of the House Schumann: Symphony No. 3 (Rhenish) An intriguing concerto (Bottesini was one of the greatest double bassists of any age) is prefaced by Mozart’s sparkling and joyous Haffner symphony. The Beethoven overture is a late and remarkable work. The concert concludes with Schumann’s happiest and most exhilarating symphony.
Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3
Borodin: Symphony No. 2
Soloist Costas Fotopoulos
The gentle mocking of academia by Brahms in his sunniest and most relaxed mood is followed by one of the mightiest of all piano concertos – Rachmaninov's 3rd played by Costas Fotopoulos. It combines spellbinding virtuosity with romantic melodies enriched by Rachmaninov's very distinctive harmonic language. An exciting programme ends with the Slavonic brilliance of Borodin's 2nd Symphony.
The Forum, Bath
"A symphony must be like the world, it must embrace everything" Mahler once remarked to Sibelius. His first symphony, The Titan, inspired by a novel of that name, begins with the stillness of a spring dawn and the gradual awakening of the world as the colossal energy of nature is released. It takes us via sounds of the countryside including peasant ländler and a macabre parody of a funeral march to the tragic Finale with a heroic conclusion.
This is contrasted with Beethoven's Eighth Symphony which, despite the despair at his growing deafness, reveals the composer in his sunniest and most ebullient mood.
Guildhall, Bath
Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon