2012 Concerts

2012 Concert programmes

Saturday 3rd March 2012

Holy Innocents Church, Manchester

Concert conducted by Nicholas Simpson

Selection from Faust……………………….Gounod

Songs of the Auvergne (arr. Nicholas Simpson)……Canteloube

Soloist ~ Rosy Williams

Symphony No.2………………………..Brahms

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Saturday 5th May 2012

Forum Theatre, Romiley, Stockport

Concert conducted by Andrew Hodkinson

Carmen Suite…………………..Bizet

España……………………Chabrier

Symphonie Espagnol for Violin & Orchestra………Lalo

Soloist ~ Oliver Nelson

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Sunday 5th July (2:30pm)

Gorton Monastery

DIAMOND JUBILEE SUMMER CONCERT

Concert conducted by Juan Ortuño

Leader: John Resek

 Overture – ‘The Wasps’……………….Vaughan Williams

Three Elizabeths Suite………………………Coates

Crown Imperial March…………….Walton

*** Interval ***

Land of the Mountain and the Flood…………..MacCunn

Jupiter from ‘The Planets’…………….Holst

London Suite……………………….Coates

Pomp & Circumstance March No.1………………….Elgar

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Saturday 20th October 2012

Forum Theatre, Romiley, Stockport

Concert conducted by Nicholas Simpson

Leader: John Resek

Moorside Suite………………Holst

In My Love’s House…………….Nicholas Simpson

Soloist ~ Jennifer Heslop

On The Banks of Green Willow………..George Butterworth

Symphony No.6 (Pastoral)…………….Beethoven

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 Sunday 16th December

at Gorton Monastery (2pm to 4pm)

A Christmas Concert with carols

Conductor: Andrew Hodkinson

Leader: John Resek

Mexican Hat Dance (Peter Hope); Nights of Gladness (Ancliffe); Dreaming (Archibald Joyce); By The Sleepy Lagoon (Coates)
Dream of Olwen
Soloist ~ David Morgan
In the Shadows; Jamaican Rumba (Benjamin); Heart of London (Williams); Chanson de Nuit & Matin (Elgar). Sleigh Ride, Christmas Festival, The Boulevardier.
Carols: Once in Royal David’s City; In the Bleak Mid-Winter; O Come All Ye Faithful; Ding Dong Merrily on High; O Little Town of Bethlehem; Away in a Manger; Hark the Herald Angels Sing.

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