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)