
Folk Tales and Dances
This concert is dedicated to the memory of Christopher Fifield, former Music Director of the orchestra for 40 years, and will include the Prelude and Angel's Farewell from Elgar's Dream of Gerontius as a musical tribute to him.
Soloist: Harriet Williams, Mezzo-soprano
Conductor: PETER SELWYN
RAVEL Mother Goose Suite
KODÁLY Peacock Variations
RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances

Mahler’s Monumental ‘Tragic’ Symphony
Conductor: PETER SELWYN
STRAUSS Five Orchestral Songs, Soloist: Charlotte Kennedy
MAHLER Symphony No 6



Ode to Joy - Beethoven’s Magnificent 9th Symphony
Conductor: PETER SELWYN
BEETHOVEN Fidelio Overture
BEETHOVEN ‘Abscheulicher’ from Fidelio, Soloist: Cara McHardy
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9
With Sheen Gate Choir and Choir of St John the Divine, Kennington
Soloists: Cara McHardy, Harriet Williams, Ronald Samm, Simon Thorpe

Edward VII Meets the Tsar
Conductor: PETER SELWYN
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Christmas Overture
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Suite from The Golden Cockerel
ELGAR Symphony No 1

An Evening of Slavic Masterpieces
Conductor: MICHAEL COBB
JANÁČEK Adagio
DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto Soloist: Ariana Kashefi
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 2

America in London
Conductor: MICHAEL COBB
BERNSTEIN CandideOverture
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue. Soloist: Wayne Marshall
COPLAND Symphony No. 3

Suffolk Choral Concert
Conductor: GEOFF LAVERY
Pheonix Singers & Beccles Choral Society
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Sea Symphony
Old Hundredth
5 Mystical Songs

A Late Easter Opera Treat
Conductor: PETER SELWYN
PUCCINI Tosca
Starring:
NATASHA JOUHL - TOSCA
DOMINIC BEVAN - CAVARADOSSI
SIMON THORPE - SCARPIA
with Simon Wilding, George Freeburn, Leo Selleck, James Geidt, Charlie Swann

Two German Classics
Conductor: PETER SELWYN
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 Soloist: Andrew West
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

A Christmas Cracker
Conductor: PETER SELWYN
PROKOFIEV Lieutenant Kije Suite
TCHAIKOVSKY A selection from Nutcracker Suite
RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2

Hackney Festival Chorus Christmas Concert
Conductor: JOHN ANDREWS
MOZART Requiem
MENDELSSOHN Die erste Walpurgissnacht

A Land Without Music?
Supported by the William Alwyn Foundation
Conductor: PETER SELWYN
CARWITHEN Bishop Rock Overture
WALTON Cello Concerto. Soloist: Adrian Bradbury
ELGAR Enigma Variations