Past Concerts

The following list is a record of all of the concerts that the Wolsey Orchestra has given since it was formed in 1972.

2025 - 2026

Saturday 16 May 2026 at 7:30pm
Burns Recital Hall, Royal Hospital School, Holbrook
Conductor: Richard Laing
Leader: Dan Kent
Piano: Sofiia Usmanova
Felix Mendelssohn
Overture to Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.21
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No.12 in A major, K.414
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.3 in E-flat major, Op.55 - 'Eroica'
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Saturday 7 Feb 2026 at 7:30pm
The Apex, Bury St. Edmunds
Conductor: Andrew Morley
Leader: Dan Kent
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture
Sergei Prokofiev
Selection from Romeo & Juliet Suites 1 & 2
Camille Saint-Saëns
Symphony No.3, Op.78 - 'Organ Symphony'
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Saturday 11 Oct 2025 at 7:30pm
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Dexter Drown
Leader: Dan Kent
Igor Stravinsky
Petrushka (1947 version)
John Williams
Harry Potter Symphonic Suite
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
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2024 - 2025

Saturday 17 May 2025 at 7:30pm
Burns Recital Hall, Royal Hospital School, Holbrook
Conductor: Harry Sever
Leader: Dan Kent
Carl Maria von Weber
Overture - Der Freischütz
Antonín Dvořák
Serenade for Wind in D minor, Op.44
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No.4 in E minor
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Saturday 8 Feb 2025 at 7:30pm
The Apex, Bury St. Edmunds
Conductor: Richard Laing
Leader: Dan Kent
Richard Wagner
Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral (from Lohengrin)
Arranged by Richard Laing
Georges Bizet
Carmen Suites No.1 & 2
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade, Op.35
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Saturday 12 Oct 2024 at 7:30pm
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Andrew Morley
Guest Leader: Dan Kent
Richard Strauss
Also Sprach Zarathustra (opening)
Johanne Strauss Jr
An der schönen blauen Donau, op.314 (On the Beautiful Blue Danube), Op.314
John Williams
Star Wars - Suite for Orchestra
Gustav Holst
The Planets Suite
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2023 - 2024

Saturday 11 May 2024 at 7:30pm
Burns Recital Hall, Royal Hospital School, Holbrook
Conductor: Emma Kent
Guest Leader: Dan Kent
Violin: Emily Sun
Gioachino Rossini
Overture - Thieving Magpie
Max Bruch
Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor.
Florence Price
Symphony No.1 in E minor
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Saturday 3 Feb 2024 at 7:30pm
The Apex, Bury St. Edmunds
Conductor: Andrew Morley
Leader: Nick Reynolds
Gioachino Rossini
Overture - William Tell
Aaron Copland
Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.5 in D minor
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Saturday 14 Oct 2023 at 7:30pm
Burns Recital Hall, Royal Hospital School, Holbrook
Conductor: Richard Laing
Leader: Nick Reynolds
Franz Schubert
Overture - Rosamunde
Richard Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No.5
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No.6
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No.8 in G
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2022 - 2023

Saturday 13 May 2023 at 7:30pm
Burns Recital Hall, Royal Hospital School, Holbrook
Conductor: Richard Laing
Leader: Nick Reynolds
Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture - Fidelio, Op.72c
Edward Elgar
Serenade for Strings
Antonín Dvořák
Czech Suite
Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture - Leonore No.3, Op.72b
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No.5 in E minor
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Saturday 4 Feb 2023 at 7:30pm
The Apex, Bury St. Edmunds
Conductor: Andrew Morley
Leader: Nick Reynolds
Aaron Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite
Sergei Rachmaninov
Symphony No.2 in E minor, Op.27
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Saturday 8 Oct 2022 at 7:30pm
Burns Recital Hall, Royal Hospital School, Holbrook
Conductor: Andrew Morley
Leader: Nick Reynolds
Violin: Julia Hwang
Giuseppe Verdi
Overture - Nabucco
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite No.1
Camille Saint-Saëns
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.9
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2021 - 2022

Saturday 14 May 2022 at 7:30pm
Burns Recital Hall, Royal Hospital School, Holbrook
Conductor: Richard Laing
Leader: Nick Reynolds
Piano: Jennifer Carter
Felix Mendelssohn
Overture - Ruy Blas
Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No.7 in D
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As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, our concerts scheduled for October 2021 and February 2022 had to be cancelled

2020 - 2021

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, our concerts scheduled for October 2020, February 2021 and May 2021 had to be cancelled.

2019 - 2020

Saturday 16 May 2020
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic which took hold in the UK in March 2020, all indoor public entertainment venues were closed, and our May 2020 concert had to be cancelled.
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Saturday 8 Feb 2020
The Apex, Bury St. Edmunds
Conductor: Andrew Morley
Leader: Nick Reynolds
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian Easter Festival Overture
Modest Mussorgsky
Prelude to Khovanshchina
Aram Khachaturian
Masquerade Suite
Sergei Rachmaninov
Symphony No.3 in A minor, Op.44
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Saturday 12 Oct 2019
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: William Carslake
Leader: Nick Reynolds
Violin: Tamás Fejes
Giuseppe Verdi
Overture - La Forza del Destino
Chris Wright
Violin Concerto
Robert Schumann
Symphony No.3 in E-flat major - 'Rhenish'
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2018 - 2019

Saturday 18 May 2019
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Andrew Morley
Leader: Nick Reynolds
Piano: Erdem Misirlioğlu
Carl Maria von Weber
Overture - Oberon
Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54
Alexander Borodin
In the Steppes of Central Asia
Alexander Borodin
Symphony No.2 in B minor - 'Heroic Symphony'
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Saturday 9 Feb 2019
The Apex, Bury St. Edmunds
Conductor: Andrew Morley
Leader: Nick Reynolds
William Walton
Overture - Orb & Sceptre
George Butterworth
A Shropshire Lad
Gustav Holst
Beni Mora
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No.2 - 'London'
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Saturday 13 Oct 2018
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: William Carslake
Leader: Nick Reynolds
Violin: Rosemary Hinton
Jean Sibelius
Finlandia, Op.26
Sergei Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op. 63
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.6 in B minor - 'Pathétique'
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2017 - 2018

Saturday 12 May 2018
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: William Carslake
Guest Leader: Nick Reynolds
Franz Schubert
Symphony No.8 in B minor - 'Unfinished'
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No.7 in C major
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No.1 in C minor
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Saturday 3 Feb 2018
The Apex, Bury St. Edmunds
Conductor: Andrew Morley
Guest Leader: Nick Reynolds
Richard Wagner
Overture - Flying Dutchman
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Waltz from Eugene Onegin
Maurice Ravel
Suite - Le Tombeau de Couperin
Aram Khachaturian
Adagio from Spartacus
Claude Debussy
La Mer
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Saturday 14 Oct 2017
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Ben Palmer
Guest Leader: Beth Spendlove
Modest Mussorgsky
Night on a Bare Mountain
Paul Dukas
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14
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2016 - 2017

Saturday 13 May 2017
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Andrew Morley
Guest Leader: Helen Stanley
Trumpet: Adrian Robinson
Johannes Brahms
Tragic Overture, Op.81
Aleksandr Grigori Arutiunian
Trumpet Concerto
Zoltán Kodály
Dances of Galánta
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No.9 - 'From the New World'
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Saturday 11 Feb 2017
The Apex, Bury St. Edmunds
Conductor: Ben Palmer
Guest Leader: Helen Stanley
Violoncello: Susie Davis
Alexander Borodin
Overture - Prince Igor
Antonín Dvořák
Cello Concerto in B minor
Jean Sibelius
Valse Triste
Carl Nielsen
Symphony No.1
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Saturday 15 Oct 2016
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: William Carslake
Guest Leader: Rosemary Hinton
Richard Wagner
Overture - The Meistersingers
Paul Hindemith
Nobilissima Visione
George Butterworth
On the Banks of Green Willow
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
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2015 - 2016

Saturday 14 May 2016
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Andrew Morley
Guest Leader: Helen Stanley
Violin: Paul Armitage
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture - The Magic Flute
Henryk Wieniawski
Violin Concerto No.2
Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture - Coriolan, Op62
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67
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Saturday 13 Feb 2016
The Apex, Bury St. Edmunds
Conductor: William Carslake
Guest Leader: Rosemary Hinton
Mezzo Soprano: Clare Presland
Antonín Dvořák
Scherzo Capriccioso
Hector Berlioz
Les Nuits d'Eté, Op.7
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.10
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Saturday 10 Oct 2015
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Anthony Weeden
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Violin: Kerenza Peacock
John Barry
The Best of Bond (arr. Tyzik)
Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35
Jerome Moross
Theme from the "Big Country"
Arnold & Price
Sherlock Suite
John Williams
Star Wars - Suite for Orchestra
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2014 - 2015

Saturday 16 May 2015
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Andrew Morley
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Violoncello: Olivia da Costa
Gustav Holst
Somerset Rhapsody
Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto In E minor, Op.85
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No.5 in B-flat major, Op.100
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Saturday 7 Feb 2015
The Apex, Bury St. Edmunds
Conductor: Ben Palmer
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Double Bass: Dominic Seldis
Edward Elgar
Overture - Froissart
Giovanni Bottesini
Elegy
Niccolò Paganini
Moses Variations
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No.2
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Saturday 11 Oct 2014
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: William Carslake
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Overture - Maid of Pskov
Béla Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra, BB 123
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No.2
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2013 - 2014

Saturday 10 May 2014
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Andrew Morley
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Eric Coates
Dambuster's March
Malcolm Arnold
Little Suite No.2, Op.78
Arthur Bliss
Concert Suite - 'Things to come', F.131
William Walton
Symphony No.1
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Saturday 8 Feb 2014
The Apex, Bury St. Edmunds
Conductor: Anthony Weeden
Guest Leader: Tom Ping
Violin: Jamie Foreman
Aaron Copland
El Salon Mexico
Philip Glass
Violin Concerto
Arturo Márquez
Danzón No.2
Sergei Prokofiev
Suite No.2, Op.108
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Saturday 12 Oct 2013
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: William Carslake
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Piano: Erdem Misirlioğlu
Malcolm Arnold
Overture - Tam O'Shanter, Op.51
Benjamin Britten
Symphonic Suite - 'Gloriana'
Richard Rodgers
Carousel Waltz
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
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2012 - 2013

Saturday 11 May 2013
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Alexander Walker
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Violin: Anna Helleur
Cello: Rachel Helleur
Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture - Leonore No.3, Op.72b
Johannes Brahms
Double Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, Op.102
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No.7 in D
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Saturday 9 Feb 2013
The Apex, Bury St. Edmunds
Conductor: Andrew Morley
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Flute: Sally Beck
Maurice Ravel
Alborada Del Gracioso
Aram Khachaturian
Flute Concerto
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Capriccio Italien, Op.45
Ottorino Respighi
The Pines of Rome
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Saturday 13 Oct 2012
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Ben Palmer
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Antonín Dvořák
Carnival Overture
Gustav Holst
Ballet - 'The Perfect Fool'
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.5 in E minor, Op.64
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2011 - 2012

Saturday 12 May 2012
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Andrew Morley
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Piano: Erdem Misirlioğlu
Michael Torke
Javelin
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Suite - Le Coq D'or
Sergei Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, Op.30
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Saturday 11 Feb 2012
The Apex, Bury St. Edmunds
Conductor: Anthony Weeden
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Dmitri Shostakovich
Festive Overture, Op. 96
Igor Stravinsky
Divertimento - The Fairy's Kiss
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade, Op.35
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Saturday 15 Oct 2011
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: William Carslake
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Violin: Rosemary Hinton
Giuseppe Verdi
Overture - La Forza del Destino
Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.77
Edward Elgar
Symphony No.1 in A-flat Major
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2010 - 2011

Saturday 14 May 2011
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Anthony Weeden
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.88 in G major
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.5 in C-sharp minor
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Saturday 12 Feb 2011
The Apex, Bury St. Edmunds
Conductor: Ben Palmer
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Soprano: Daniela Bechley
Benjamin Britten
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Edward Elgar
Sea Pictures
Sergei Rachmaninov
Symphony No.2 in E minor, Op.27
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Saturday 16 Oct 2010
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Andrew Morley
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Clarinet: James Meldrum
Chris Wright
Momentum
Gerald Finzi
Clarinet Concerto, Op.31
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Third Orchestral Suite
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2009 - 2010

Saturday 15 May 2010
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: William Carslake
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Violin: Kerenza Peacock
George Gershwin
An American in Paris
Samuel Barber
Violin Concerto
Sergei Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances, Op.45
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Saturday 13 Feb 2010
St Peters by the Waterfront, Ipswich
Conductor: Andrew Morley
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture - Don Giovanni
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No.4 in A Major - 'Italian'
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.6 in F major, Op.68, - 'Pastoral'
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Saturday 10 Oct 2009
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Anthony Weeden
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Piano: Erdem Misirlioğlu
Stuart MacRae
Commission
(World Premiere)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No.1 in Bb minor
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No.4 in E minor
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2008 - 2009

Saturday 16 May 2009
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Andrew Morley
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Cor Anglais: Neil Carlson
Trumpet: John Jermy
George Gershwin
Cuban Overture
Aaron Copland
Quiet City
Aaron Copland
Ballet Suite Billy The Kid
Leonard Bernstein
Overture - Candide
Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Suite - On The Waterfront
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Saturday 7 Feb 2009
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Anthony Weeden
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Soprano: Clare Presland
Hector Berlioz
Le Corsair - Overture, Op.21
Joseph Canteloube
Songs from the Auvergne
Francis Poulenc
Suite Les Biches
Maurice Ravel
Daphnis & Chloe Suite No.2
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Saturday 11 Oct 2008
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: William Carslake
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture, Op.80
Richard Wagner
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde
Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier - First Waltz Sequence
Edward Elgar
Meditation - The Light Of Life, Op.29 (Lux Christi)
Edward Elgar
Enigma Variations, op.36 (Variations on an Original Theme)
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2007 - 2008

Saturday 10 May 2008
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Andrew Fardell
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Violin: Roger Owen
Carl Nielsen
Helios Overture
Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.6 in B minor - 'Pathétique'
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Saturday 9 Feb 2008
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: William Carslake
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Piano: Erdem Misirlioğlu
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian Easter Festival Overture
Sergei Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, Op.18
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Suite - The Snow Maiden
Igor Stravinsky
Suite - The Firebird [1919]
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Saturday 13 Oct 2007
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Anthony Weeden
Leader: Jamie Foreman
William Walton
Spitfire Prelude & Fugue
Malcolm Arnold
English Dances, Set One
Benjamin Britten
Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34 (Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No.2 - 'London'
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2006 - 2007

Saturday 12 May 2007
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Andrew Morley
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Modest Mussorgsky
Prelude to Khovanshchina
Modest Mussorgsky
Night on a Bare Mountain
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio Espagnol
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.5 in E minor, Op.64
Saturday 10 Feb 2007
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Anthony Weeden
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Piano: Warren Mailley-Smith
Claude Debussy
Prelude à "L'après-midi d'un faune"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No.23 in A Major
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14
Saturday 14 Oct 2006
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Anthony Halstead
Leader: Jamie Foreman
Violin: Jamie Foreman
Edward Elgar
Serenade for Strings
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
Gustav Holst
The Planets Suite

2005 - 2006

Saturday 13 May 2006
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: John Traill
Guest Leader: Jessie Ridley
Frederick Delius
La Calinda
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite No.1
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite No.2
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No.3
Saturday 11 Feb 2006
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Christopher Phelps
Leader: Anna Pettit
Violin: Jeanine Thorpe
Paul Hindemith
Symphonic Metamorphis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Sergei Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No.1 in D Major, Op. 19
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.5 in D minor
Saturday 15 Oct 2005
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Peter Stark
Leader: Anna Pettit
Trumpet: John Jermy
Dag Wirén
Serenade for Strings
Joseph Horovitz
Trumpet Concerto
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No.9

2004 - 2005

Saturday 14 May 2005
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Harry Curtis
Leader: Anna Pettit
Saxphone: Rob Buckland
Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Suite - West Side Story
Alexander Glazunov
Saxophone Concerto
Leoš Janáček
Sinfonietta
Saturday 5 Feb 2005
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Anthony Halstead
Leader: Anna Pettit
Contralto: Ruth Theobald
Maurice Ravel
Suite - Mother Goose (Ma Mère l'Oye)
Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder
Igor Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring
Saturday 9 Oct 2004
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Steve Bell
Leader: Anna Pettit
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture
Peter Warlock
Capriol Suite
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.12 - 'The Year 1917'

2003 - 2004

Saturday 8 May 2004
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Harry Curtis
Leader: Anna Pettit
Piano: Tom Poster
Claude Debussy
Nocturnes
Sergei Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43
Béla Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra, BB 123
Saturday 7 Feb 2004
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Anthony Halstead
Leader: Anna Pettit
Horn: Donald Clist
Horn: Stephen Smart
Horn: Stephen Orriss
Horn: Martin Childs
Gioachino Rossini
Overture - William Tell
Robert Schumann
Concertstuck for 4 Horns
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.3 in E-flat major, Op.55 - 'Eroica'
Saturday 11 Oct 2003
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Ben Parry
Leader: Anna Pettit
Violin: Kathryn Parry
Robert Schumann
Overture - Genoveva
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64
Edward Elgar
Symphony No.1 in A-flat Major

2002 - 2003

Saturday 17 May 2003
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: John Traill
Leader: Anna Pettit
Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Suite from Swan Lake
Sergei Prokofiev
Suite from Romeo and Juliet
Saturday 8 Feb 2003
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Harry Curtis
Leader: Anna Pettit
Violin: Sophie Appleton
Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture - Fidelio, Op.72c
Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.77
Carl Nielsen
Symphony No.4 - 'The Inextinguishable'
Saturday 12 Oct 2002
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Martin Pring
Leader: Anna Pettit
Johannes Brahms
St Anthony Variations
Chris Wright
Manoeuvres
(First Performance)
Edward Elgar
Enigma Variations, op.36 (Variations on an Original Theme)

2001 - 2002

Saturday 18 May 2002
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Ian Hughes
Leader: Christa Porter
Cello: Rachel Helleur
Gioachino Rossini
Overture - Il Signor Bruschino
Antonín Dvořák
Cello Concerto in B minor
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No.4
Saturday 9 Feb 2002
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Martin Pring
Leader: Christa Porter
Soprano: Ros Evans
Edward Elgar
Overture - Cockaigne
George Butterworth
A Shropshire Lad
William Walton
Three Arias from Troilus and Cressida
William Walton
Fiesta
Gustav Holst
St Pauls Suite
Alan Rawsthorne
Symphonic Studies
Saturday 13 Oct 2001
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Murray Stewart
Leader: Christa Porter
Horn: Stephen Smart
Engelbert Humperdinck
Overture - Hansel and Gretel
Richard Strauss
Horn Concerto No.1 in E-flat major
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.4

2000 - 2001

Saturday 19 May 2001
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Paul Hoskins
Leader: Christa Porter
Piano: Ian Fountain
Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring
Benjamin Britten
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Benjamin Britten
Pasacaglia from Peter Grimes
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No.2
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Saturday 10 Feb 2001
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Russell Keable
Leader: Christa Porter
Marimba: Jane Stoneham
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.5 in A major
Paul Creston
Marimba Concerto
Igor Stravinsky
Pulcinella Suite
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No.41 - 'Jupiter'
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Sunday 15 Oct 2000
Culford School, Bury St. Edmunds
Conductor: Peter Stark
Leader: Christa Porter
Soprano: Claire Pendleton
Soprano: Kerry Gill
Soprano: Jessica Thomas
Contralto: Josephine Halsall
Contralto: Claire Bartram
Tenor: Martin Quinn
Baritone: Per Bach Nissen
Bass: James Gower
Choir: Wolsey Orchestra Singers
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.8
Saturday 14 Oct 2000
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Peter Stark
Leader: Christa Porter
Soprano: Claire Pendleton
Soprano: Kerry Gill
Soprano: Jessica Thomas
Contralto: Josephine Halsall
Contralto: Claire Bartram
Tenor: Martin Quinn
Baritone: Per Bach Nissen
Bass: James Gower
Choir: Wolsey Orchestra Singers
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.8

1999 - 2000

Saturday 13 May 2000
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Howard Moody
Leader: Christa Porter
Piano: Nicholas Walker
Sergei Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, Op.30
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No.1 in C minor
Saturday 12 Feb 2000
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Rumon Gamba
Leader: Christa Porter
Malcolm Arnold
The Sound Barrier, Op.38
William Walton
Suite from Henry V
John Williams
Star Wars - Suite for Orchestra
Dmitri Shostakovich
The Gadfly
Saturday 23 Oct 1999
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Peter Stark
Leader: Christa Porter
Violin: Juliet Hughes-Rees
Viola: Eilen Reece
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture - The Marriage of Figaro, K.492
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, K.364
Igor Stravinsky
Petrushka (1947 version)
poster

1998 - 1999

Saturday 15 May 1999
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Russell Keable
Leader: Christa Porter
Piano: Andrew Leach
Johannes Brahms
Tragic Overture, Op.81
Béla Bartók
Piano Concerto No.3, BB 127
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.7 in A major, Op.92
poster
Saturday 13 Feb 1999
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Peter Stark
Leader: Anna Helleur
Soprano: Gudrún Jóhanna Jónsdóttir
Richard Strauss
Serenade in E-flat for 13 wind instruments, Op.7
Richard Strauss
Five Orchestral Songs
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.5 in C-sharp minor
poster
Saturday 24 Oct 1998
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Peter Stark
Leader: Anna Helleur
Paul Dukas
Fanfare from 'La Péri'
Jean Sibelius
The Swan of Tuonela, Op.22
Zoltán Kodály
Peacock Variations
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade, Op.35
poster

1997 - 1998

Monday 1 Jun 1998
Christchurch Park, Ipswich (Orchestrelle)
Conductor: David Bolton
Arthur Sullivan
Pineapple Poll
Aaron Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
Saturday 16 May 1998
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Peter Stark
Leader: Christa Porter
Violin: Helen Feltrup
Edward Elgar
Introduction and Allegro, Op.47
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
Gustav Holst
A Somerset Rhapsody, Op.21 No.2
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Job - A Masque for Dancing
poster
Saturday 7 Feb 1998
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Howard Moody
Leader: Christa Porter
Piano: Nicholas Walker
Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture - Egmont, Op.84
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No.1 in Bb minor
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No.2
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.92 in G major - 'Oxford'
poster
Sunday 12 Oct 1997
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Robin Page
Leader: Christa Porter
Soprano: Daniela Bechley
Felix Mendelssohn
Overture - Hebrides, Op.26
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No.4 in A Major - 'Italian'
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.4
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1996 - 1997

Sunday 18 May 1997
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Peter Stark
Leader: Christa Porter
Piano: Alba Ventura
George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture
Andrzej Panufnik
Sinfonia Sacra
Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G major
Leonard Bernstein
Overture - Candide
poster
Sunday 2 Feb 1997
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Darrell Davison
Leader: Christa Porter
Violin: Sophie Appleton
Paul Dukas
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No.5 in B-flat major, Op.100
poster
Sunday 13 Oct 1996
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Christa Porter
Piano: Anya Alexeyev
Jean Sibelius
Finlandia, Op.26
Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16
Sergei Rachmaninov
Symphony No.2 in E minor, Op.27
poster

1995 - 1996

Sunday 12 May 1996
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Peter Stark
Leader: Christa Porter
Oboe: Helen Moody
Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture - Fidelio, Op.72c
Richard Strauss
Oboe Concerto
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No.7
poster
Sunday 4 Feb 1996
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Christopher Adey
Leader: Christa Porter
Piano: Elizabeth Hayes
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.1 in C major, Op.15
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.1
poster
Sunday 15 Oct 1995
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Howard Moody
Leader: Christa Porter
Guitar: Richard Hand
Leonard Bernstein
3 Dance Episodes from 'On the Town'
Joaquín Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No.2
poster

1994 - 1995

Sunday 7 May 1995
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Christa Porter
Violin: Simon Smith
Modest Mussorgsky
Prelude to Khovanshchina
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35, TH 59
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.10
poster
Sunday 5 Feb 1995
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Peter Stark
Leader: Christa Porter
Piano: Martin Roscoe
Mikhail Glinka
Overture - Russlan and Ludmilla
Sergei Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, Op.18
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.5 in E minor, Op.64
poster
Sunday 16 Oct 1994
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Lionel Friend
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Cello: Jane Hyland
Edward Elgar
Serenade for Strings
Frederick Delius
Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra
Gustav Holst
The Planets Suite
poster

1993 - 1994

Sunday 15 May 1994
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Violin: Anna Helleur
Carl Maria von Weber
Overture - Der Freischütz
Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.77
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No.9 - 'From the New World'
poster
Sunday 6 Feb 1994
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Michael Rose
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Richard Wagner
Overture - Tannhäuser
Maurice Ravel
La Valse
Hector Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14
poster
Sunday 17 Oct 1993
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Lionel Friend
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Piano: Elizabeth Hayes
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No.1
Robert Schumann
Symphony No.4

1992 - 1993

Sunday 23 May 1993
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Christopher Adey
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Violin: Rosemary Furniss
Dmitry Kabalevsky
Overture - Colas Breugnon, Op.24
Antonín Dvořák
Violin Concerto in A minor, Op.53, B.96
Sergei Rachmaninov
Symphony No.3 in A minor, Op.44
poster
Sunday 31 Jan 1993
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Soprano: Adele Paxton
Georges Bizet
Overture - Fair Maid of Perth
Gustav Mahler
Songs of a Wayfarer
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No.1 in E minor, Op.39
poster
Sunday 4 Oct 1992
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Lionel Friend
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Piano: John Lill
Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor, Op.37
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.5 in D minor
poster

1991 - 1992

Sunday 17 May 1992
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: John Lubbock
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Piano: Elizabeth Hayes
Maurice Ravel
Boléro
Sergei Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43
Edward Elgar
Symphony No.1 in A-flat Major
poster
Sunday 2 Feb 1992
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Christopher Adey
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Clarinet: Fiona Cross
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.72 in D major
Carl Maria von Weber
Clarinet Concerto No.2 in E-flat major, Op.74
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No.5 in E minor
Sunday 29 Sep 1991
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Lionel Friend
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Cello: Jane Hyland
Engelbert Humperdinck
Overture - Hansel and Gretel
Robert Schumann
Cello Concerto
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.6 in B minor - 'Pathétique'
poster

1990 - 1991

Sunday 19 May 1991
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Trumpet: Ray Simmons
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture - Don Giovanni
Joseph Haydn
Trumpet Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.8 in F major, Op.93
Sunday 17 Feb 1991
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: John Lubbock
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Piano: John Lill
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.5 in E-flat major, Op.73 - 'Emperor'
Sergei Rachmaninov
Symphony No.2 in E minor, Op.27
poster
Sunday 30 Sep 1990
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Lionel Friend
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Cello: Alexander Baillie
Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto In E minor, Op.85
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No.4
poster

1989 - 1990

Saturday 23 Jun 1990
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Andrew Fairley
Elspeth Davidson
An Evening In Old Vienna
poster
Sunday 20 May 1990
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Christopher Adey
Leader: Daisy Joplin
Violin: Beth Spendlove
Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture - Prometheus
Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D major, Op.61
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.7 in A major, Op.92
Sunday 4 Feb 1990
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: John Lubbock
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Female Voice Choir: Olive Quantrill Singers
Claude Debussy
Nocturnes
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No.1 in C minor
Sunday 10 Sep 1989
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Lionel Friend
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Soprano: Jane Eaglen
Franz Schubert
Symphony No.8 in B minor - 'Unfinished'
Richard Wagner
Wesendonk Lieder
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No.8 in G
poster

1988 - 1989

Sunday 14 May 1989
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Iain Ledingham
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Harpsichord: Iain Ledingham
George Frideric Handel
Concerto a Due Cori
Johann Sebastian Bach
Harpsichord Concerto No.1 in D minor, BWV 1052
Jean Sibelius
Rakastava for Orchestra and Percussion
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.100 in G major -'Military'
Sunday 5 Feb 1989
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Howard Griffiths
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Soprano: Melanie Armitstead
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Overture - The Wasps
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on Greensleeves
Benjamin Britten
Les Illuminations
Sergei Rachmaninov
Vocalise
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No.38 - 'Prague'
Sunday 2 Oct 1988
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: John Lubbock
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Violin: Gregory Ellis
Antonio Vivaldi
The Seasons
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No.9 - 'From the New World'
poster

1987 - 1988

Sunday 1 May 1988
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Christopher Adey
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Piano: Kathron Sturrock
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op.6 No.7
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor, Op.37
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No.40
Sunday 24 Jan 1988
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eine Kleine Nachtmusic
Gabriel Fauré
Pavane
Jacques Ibert
Divertissement
Edmund Rubbra
Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby, Op.50
Sunday 4 Oct 1987
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: John Lubbock
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Violin: Alan Brind
Dmitri Shostakovich
Festive Overture, Op. 96
Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.3 in E-flat major, Op.55 - 'Eroica'
poster

1986 - 1987

Sunday 28 Jun 1987
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: ????
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No.1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No.33
Gordon Jacob
Old Wine in New Bottles
Pieces played by Suffolk Brass Ensemble
poster
Sunday 3 May 1987
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Graham Treacher
Leader: Paula Radford
Piano: Paul Mann
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Suite from 'Les Boreades'
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No.23 in A Major
Igor Stravinsky
Concerto for Chamber Orchestra - 'Dumbarton Oaks'
Franz Schubert
Symphony No.5
poster
Sunday 1 Feb 1987
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Christopher Adey
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Choir of Thomas Mills High School
Nikos Skalkottas
5 Greek Dances
David Bramhall
The Monster Music
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No.4 in E minor
Sunday 28 Sep 1986
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: John Lubbock
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Soprano: Alison Hargan
Johannes Brahms
Tragic Overture, Op.81
Richard Strauss
4 Last Songs
Edward Elgar
Enigma Variations, op.36 (Variations on an Original Theme)
poster

1985 - 1986

Sunday 29 Jun 1986
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Christopher Adey
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Piano: Anna Markland
Alexander Borodin
Overture - Prince Igor
Igor Stravinsky
Symphony in C
Sergei Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, Op.18
poster
Sunday 4 May 1986
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Alan Hacker
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Clarinet: Alan Hacker
Joseph Haydn
March for the Prince of Wales
Gerald Finzi
Clarinet Concerto, Op.31
Antonín Dvořák
Serenade for Wind in D minor, Op.44
Franz Schubert
Symphony No.1
poster
Sunday 19 Jan 1986
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Violin: Beth Spendlove
Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64
Richard Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.103 in E-flat major - 'Drum-roll'
poster
Sunday 22 Sep 1985
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Christopher Adey
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Piano: Michael Roll
Benjamin Britten
Overture - The Building of the House
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.4 in G major, Op.58
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No.2
poster

1984 - 1985

Sunday 7 Jul 1985
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Adrian Brown
Leader: Peter Youngs
Piano: Benjamin Frith
Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite No.1 in C major, BWV 1066
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No.1 in Bb minor
Robert Schumann
Symphony No.4
poster
Sunday 12 May 1985
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Christopher Adey
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Cello: Sebastian Comberti
Franz Schubert
Symphony No.6
Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto In E minor, Op.85
Darius Milhaud
Le boeuf sur le toit
poster
Sunday 3 Feb 1985
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Christopher Adey
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Horn: Timothy Brown
Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture - King Stephen, Op.117
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Horn Concerto No.3
Richard Strauss
Horn Concerto No.1 in E-flat major
Kurt Weill
Symphony No.3
poster
Sunday 7 Oct 1984
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: John Lubbock
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No.7 in D
Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings
Benjamin Britten
Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34 (Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell)
poster

1983 - 1984

Sunday 8 Jul 1984
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Lionel Friend
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Piano: Ian Brown
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No.7 in C major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No.25
Robert Schumann
Symphony No.3 in E-flat major - 'Rhenish'
poster
Sunday 6 May 1984
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Russell Keable
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Cello: Lionel Handy
Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite No.3 in D major, BWV 1068
Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No.1
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op.6
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No.36 - 'Linz'
poster
Sunday 12 Feb 1984
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Christopher Adey
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Piano: Anna Markland
Peter Maxwell Davies
First Fantasia on an "In nomine" of John Taverner, Op.19
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.104 in D major - 'London'
Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16
Felix Mendelssohn
Overture to Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.21
poster
Sunday 9 Oct 1983
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Christopher Adey
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Violin: Rosemary Furniss
Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture - Leonore No.3, Op.72b
Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.77
Johannes Brahms
Serenade No.1 in D major
poster

1982 - 1983

Sunday 10 Jul 1983
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: John Lubbock
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Flute: Judith Pearce
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No.5
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto No.1 in G major for Flute
Manuel de Falla
The Three-cornered Hat
poster
Sunday 8 May 1983
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Christopher Adey
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Cello: Andrea Hess
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture - The Magic Flute
Arnold Schoenberg
Transfigured Night
Antonín Dvořák
Cello Concerto in B minor
poster
Sunday 23 Jan 1983
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No.1, BWV 1046
Igor Stravinsky
Pulcinella Suite
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.36
poster
Sunday 31 Oct 1982
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Christopher Adey
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Piano: Peter Frankl
Franz Schubert
Overture in the Italian Style
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No.24 in C minor
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.101 in D major - 'The Clock'
Igor Stravinsky
Suite No.1
poster

1981 - 1982

Sunday 11 Jul 1982
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: John Lubbock
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Antonín Dvořák
Symphonic Variations, Op.78
Nicholas Maw
Summer Dances
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.5 in D minor
Sunday 23 May 1982
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Christopher Adey
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Violin: Rosemary Furniss
Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture - Fidelio, Op.72c
Sergei Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op. 63
Franz Schubert
Symphony No.9
poster
Sunday 24 Jan 1982
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Soprano: Juliana Bethlen
Richard Strauss
Serenade in E-flat for 13 wind instruments, Op.7
Manuel de Falla
El Amor Brujo
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67
poster
Sunday 25 Oct 1981
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Christopher Adey
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Piano: John Ogden
Felix Mendelssohn
Overture - Hebrides, Op.26
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.5 in E-flat major, Op.73 - 'Emperor'
poster

1980 - 1981

Sunday 5 Jul 1981
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: John Lubbock
Leader: Jessie Ridley
Violin: Nigel Kennedy
Cello: Steven Isserlis
Claude Debussy
Prelude à "L'après-midi d'un faune"
Johannes Brahms
Double Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, Op.102
Franz Schubert
Symphony No.8 in B minor - 'Unfinished'
Maurice Ravel
Suite - Mother Goose (Ma Mère l'Oye)
poster
Sunday 10 May 1981
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Hugh Maguire
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Violin: Hugh Maguire
Violin: Richard Featherstone
Flute: Judith Pearce
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for two violins in D minor, BWV 1043
Carl Nielsen
Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture - The Impresario
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.98 in B-flat major
poster
Sunday 25 Jan 1981
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Christopher Adey
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Harpsichord: Janet Barwell
Benjamin Britten
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
Francis Poulenc
Concerto Champêtre for Harpsichord and Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.4 in B-flat major, Op.60
poster
Sunday 2 Nov 1980
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Hugh Maguire
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Piano: Fou Ts'ong
Johannes Brahms
Variations on the St Anthony Chorale
Frédéric Chopin
Piano Concerto No.2, Op.21 in F minor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade No.6 - 'Serenata Notturna'
Zoltán Kodály
Dances of Galánta
poster

1979 - 1980

Sunday 13 Jul 1980
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Christopher Adey
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Cello: Sebastian Comberti
George Frideric Handel
Water Music Suite No.1 in F
Camille Saint-Saëns
Concerto No.1 for Violoncello and Orchestra, Op.33 in A minor
Edvard Grieg
Holberg Suite, Op.40
Francis Poulenc
Sinfonietta
poster
Sunday 11 May 1980
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Sir Peter Pears
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Choir: The Anglian Voices
William Boyce
Solomon, A Serenata
poster
Sunday 27 Jan 1980
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Hugh Maguire
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Harpsichord: Janet Barwell
Violin: Hugh Maguire
Flute: Katherine Darton
Double Bass: Caroline Maguire
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No.5, BWV 1050
Giovanni Bottesini
Concerto No.2 for Double Bass and Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.8 in F major, Op.93
poster
Sunday 14 Oct 1979
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: John Lubbock
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Piano: John Lill
Maurice Ravel
Suite - Le Tombeau de Couperin
Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.6 in F major, Op.68, - 'Pastoral'

1978 - 1979

Sunday 8 Jul 1979
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: John Georgiadis
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Violin: John Georgiadis
Viola: Tim Grant
Carl Heinrich Biber
Battalia
Georges Bizet
Symphony No.1 in C major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, K.364
Zoltán Kodály
Dances from Marasszek
Sunday 13 May 1979
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Eli Goren
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade No.7 in D major, K.248b - 'Haffner'
Igor Stravinsky
Apollon Musagète
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No.4 in A Major - 'Italian'
Sunday 28 Jan 1979
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Graham Treacher
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Hart: Osian Ellis
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade No.12, K.388
George Frideric Handel
Concerto for Harp, Op.4 No.6, HWV 294
Claude Debussy
Danses Sacrée et Profane for Harp And Strings
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.7 in A major, Op.92
Sunday 22 Oct 1978
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Christopher Adey
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Piano: Janet Barwell
Timpani: Andrew Tyrrell
Oboe: Sarah Francis
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No.25
Bohuslav Martinů
Double Concerto for two string orchestras, Piano and timpani, H.271
Richard Strauss
Oboe Concerto

1977 - 1978

Sunday 9 Jul 1978
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Denis East
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Violin: Denis East
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op.6 No.11
Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Concerto No.2, in E major, BWV 1042
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.49 in F minor - 'La Passione'
Jean Sibelius
Romance in C major, Op.42
Malcolm Arnold
Sinfonietta No.1, Op.48
Saturday 8 Jul 1978
Wangford Church
Conductor: Denis East
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Violin: Denis East
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op.6 No.11
Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Concerto No.2, in E major, BWV 1042
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.49 in F minor - 'La Passione'
Jean Sibelius
Romance in C major, Op.42
Malcolm Arnold
Sinfonietta No.1, Op.48
Sunday 30 Apr 1978
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Hugh Maguire
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Violin: Hugh Maguire
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No.3, K.216
Igor Stravinsky
Pulcinella Suite
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.3 in E-flat major, Op.55 - 'Eroica'
Sunday 29 Jan 1978
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: John Lubbock
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Piano: Janet Barwell
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.99 in E-flat major
Dmitri Shostakovich
Piano Concerto No.2
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No.3 - 'Scottish'
Sunday 23 Oct 1977
The Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall
Conductor: Adrian Brown
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Cello: Sebastian Comberti
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op.3 No.1
Hector Berlioz
Roméo et Juliet: Love Scene
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Rococo Variations for Cello and Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No.40

1976 - 1977

Sunday 17 Jul 1977
The Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall
Conductor: Adrian Leaper
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Horn: Adrian Leaper
Antonín Dvořák
Czech Suite
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Horn Concerto No.4
Gaetano Donizetti
Sinfonia for Winds in G minor
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.104 in D major - 'London'
Sunday 8 May 1977
The Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall
Conductor: Hugh Maguire
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Violin: Hugh Maguire
George Frideric Handel
Sinfonia - The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No.29
Béla Bartók
Romanian Folk Dances, BB 76
Antonio Vivaldi
The Seasons
Sunday 30 Jan 1977
The Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall
Conductor: Michael Burbidge
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Soprano: Anna Simcox
Benjamin Britten
Interlude for Harp from 'A Ceremony of Carols'
Lennox Berkeley
Serenade for Strings
Hector Berlioz
Les Nuits d'Eté, Op.7
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No.41 - 'Jupiter'
Sunday 31 Oct 1976
The Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall
Conductor: Adrian Brown
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Clarinet: Geoffrey Acton
Gioachino Rossini
Overture - L'Italiana in Algeri
Frederick Delius
Summer Night on the River
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.36
Saturday 30 Oct 1976
St Michael's Church, Framlingham
Conductor: Adrian Brown
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Clarinet: Geoffrey Acton
Gioachino Rossini
Overture - L'Italiana in Algeri
Frederick Delius
Summer Night on the River
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.36

1975 - 1976

Sunday 18 Jul 1976
The Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Piano: Ed Spanjaard
Johann Pachelbel
Suite No.6 in B-flat major
Arnold Schoenberg
Begleitmusik, Op.34
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No.39
Sunday 11 Apr 1976
The Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Ludwig van Beethoven
Octet for Wind, Op.103
Antonín Dvořák
Serenade for Wind in D minor, Op.44
Igor Stravinsky
Concerto for Chamber Orchestra - 'Dumbarton Oaks'
Sunday 11 Jan 1976
The Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Soprano: Anna Simcox
Richard Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
Charles Ives
Tone Roads No.1
Maurice Ravel
Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.102 in B-flat major
Sunday 5 Oct 1975
Corn Exchange, Ipswich
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Clarinet: Gervase de Peyer
Arcangelo Corelli
Christmas Concerto
Carl Maria von Weber
Clarinet Concerto No.1 in F minor, Op.73
Franz Schubert
Symphony No.4 - 'Tragic'

1974 - 1975

Sunday 13 Jul 1975
The Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Violin: Richard Featherstone
Viola: David Hume
Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite No.3 in D major, BWV 1068
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, K.364
Zoltán Kodály
Nyári Este
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture - The Marriage of Figaro, K.492
Sunday 18 May 1975
The Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Soprano: Anna Appleton
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Motet - Exsultate Jubilate
Geoffrey Burgon
Goldberg's Dream
(First Concert Performance)
Johann Pachelbel
Canon
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.93 in D major
Sunday 23 Feb 1975
The Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Richard Featherstone
William Boyce
Symphony No.4 in F major
Edward Elgar
Serenade for Strings
Anton Webern
Concerto for 9 Instruments
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.8 in F major, Op.93
Sunday 20 Oct 1974
The Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Horn: John Frith
George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso, Op.3 No.2
Igor Stravinsky
Danses Concertantes
Ludwig van Beethoven
Rondino in E-flat, Op.146 for wind octet
Richard Strauss
Horn Concerto No.2 in E-flat major

1973 - 1974

Sunday 7 Jul 1974
The Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Piano: Ed Spanjaard
Henry Purcell
Suite from 'The Faerie Queen'
Arthur Honegger
Pastorale d'Eté
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No.21 K.267
Sunday 12 May 1974
The Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade for Wind in E-flat K.375
Charles Ives
The Unanswered Question
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Suite for Strings
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.1 in C major, Op.21
Sunday 27 Jan 1974
The Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Richard Featherstone
Mary Beverley
Paul Hillier
Judith Jones
George Frideric Handel
Suite from 'The Water Music'
David Bedford
That White and Radiant Legend
Igor Stravinsky
Ragtime for 11 Instruments
Claudio Monteverdi
Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Sunday 21 Oct 1973
The Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Ann Hooley
Guitar: Anthea Gifford
Francesco Geminiani
Concerto Grosso, Op.3 No.2 in G minor
Joaquín Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra
Luciano Berio
O King
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga
Symphony in D

1972 - 1973

Sunday 15 Jul 1973
The Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Jane Gillie
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No.3, BWV 1038
Charles Gounod
Petite Symphonie
Peter Maxwell Davies
First Fantasia on an "In nomine" of John Taverner, Op.19
Johannes Brahms
Serenade No.2 in A major
Sunday 15 Apr 1973
The Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Jane Foottit
Harp: Brian Wilson
Soprano: Lesley Parrott
Baritone: Richard Jackson
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.59 in A major - 'The Fire'
Maurice Ravel
Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet
Hector Berlioz
Les Nuits d'Eté, Op.7
Antonín Dvořák
Serenade for Wind in D minor, Op.44
Sunday 21 Jan 1973
The Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Jane Gillie
Flute: Susan Wigglesworth
Piano: Christopher Kite
Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite No.2 in B minor, BWV 1067
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No.27, K.595
Edgard Varèse
Octandre
Jean Sibelius
Suite - Pelleas and Melisande
Sunday 29 Oct 1972
The Council Chamber, Ipswich Town Hall
Conductor: Adam Gatehouse
Leader: Jane Gillie
Violin: Peter Cropper
Richard Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
Camille Saint-Saëns
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Igor Stravinsky
Concerto for Chamber Orchestra - 'Dumbarton Oaks'
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
Antonín Dvořák
Czech Suite