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Past Concerts CONCERTS 1990/2015 1 2013/14 Mote Hall / 12 October 2013 Laura van der Heijden (cello) MSO / Wright PAST CONCERTS - 1990/2015 Britten – Four Sea Interludes from “Peter 2014/15 Grimes” Elgar – Cello Concerto Mote Hall / 11 October 2014 Rachmaninov – Symphony 3 Tae-Hyung Kim (piano) MSO / Wright Mote Hall / 30 November 2013 Wagner – Overture Tannhäuser Tom Bettley (horn) Beethoven – Piano Concerto 5 MSO / Wright “Emperor” Berlioz – Overture, Roman Carnival Tchaikovsky – Symphony 1 “Winter Glière – Horn Concerto Daydreams” Richard Strauss – Death and Transfiguration Mote Hall / 29 November 2014 Stravinsky – Suite, The Firebird Giovanni Guzzo (violin) MSO / Wright Mote Hall / 1 February 2014 Copland – Appalachian Spring Emma Johnson (clarinet) replacing the Brahms – Violin Concerto indisposed Mark Simpson Vaughan Williams – Symphony 4 MSO / Wright Mendelssohn – Overture, The Hebrides Mote Hall / 31 January 2015 Sibelius – Valse Triste Harry Winstanley (flute) Finzi – Clarinet Concerto MSO / Wright Beethoven – Symphony 3 “Eroica” Weber – Overture, Der Freischütz Taffanel orch. Winstanley – Fantasy on Mote Hall / 22 March 2014 themes from Weber’s Der Freischütz Bartosz Woroch (violin) Nielsen – Flute Concerto MSO / Wright Dvorak – Symphony 6 Schumann – Overture, Manfred Beethoven – Violin Concerto Mote Hall / 21 March 2015 Sibelius – Symphony 5 Bartosz Woroch (violin) replacing the indisposed Ulf Hoelscher Mote Hall / 17 May 2014 MSO / Wright Tom Poster (piano) Berlioz – Overture, Le Corsaire MSO / Wright Elgar – Violin Concerto Ravel – Suite, Mother Goose Beethoven – Symphony 5 Gershwin – Rhapsody in blue Ravel - Bolero Mote Hall / 16 May 2015 Ravel – Piano Concerto Alexandra Dariescu (piano) Gershwin – An American in Paris MSO / Wright Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto 1 Shostakovich – Symphony 7 “Leningrad” CONCERTS 1990/2015 2 2012/13 2011/12 Mote Hall / 13 October 2012 Mote Hall / 15 October 2011 Carlos Bonell (guitar) Lara Melda (piano) MSO / Wright MSO / Wright Shostakovich – Festive Overture Smetana – Vltava Rodrigo Guitar Concerto Grieg – Piano Concerto Mahler – Symphony 1 Shostakovich – Symphony No.5 Mote Hall / 1 December 2012 Mote Hall / 3 December 2011 Jamie Walton (cello) David Campbell (clarinet) MSO / Wright MSO / Wright Glinka – Overture, Russlan & Ludmilla Brahms – Haydn Variations Dvorak – Cello Concerto Mozart – Clarinet Concerto Brahms – Symphony 1 Dvorak – Symphony No.5 Mote Hall / 2 February 2013 Mote Hall / 4 February 2012 Ching-Yun Hu (piano) Ben Hancox (violin) MSO / Wright MSO / Wright Sibelius – Karelia suite Vaughan Williams – Wasps overture Rachmaninov – Piano Concerto 2 Nielsen – Violin Concerto Nielsen – Symphony 4 “Inextinguishable” Sibelius – Symphony No.1 Mote Hall / 23 March 2013 Mote Hall / 24 March 2012 Robin Ashwell (viola) Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin) MSO / Wright MSO / Wright Beethoven – Overture, Leonora 3 Weber – Overture, Euryanthe Walton – Viola Concerto Delius – On hearing the first cuckoo in Berlioz – Harold in Italy spring Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto Mote Hall / 18 May 2013 Schumann – Symphony No. 1 “Spring” Ulf Hoelscher (violin) MSO / Wright Mote Hall / 19 May 2012 Wagner – Overture, Die Meistersinger Maurizio Baglini (piano) Korngold – Violin Concerto MSO / Wright Tchaikovsky – Symphony 4 Debussy – Fêtes / Nocturnes Beethoven – Piano Concerto No.3 Elgar – Symphony No.1 CONCERTS 1990/2015 3 2010/11 2009/10 Centenary Season Mote Hall / 10 October 2009 Mote Hall / 16 October 2010 Maurizio Baglini (piano) Tom Poster (piano) MSO / Wright MSO / Wright Enescu – Romanian Rhapsody 1 Malcolm Riley – Concert Overture, Chopin – Piano Concerto 1 Fairmeadow (première – MSO Prokofiev – Symphony 5 commission)) Beethoven – Piano Concerto No.4 Mote Hall / 28 November 2009 Rachmaninov – Symphonic Dances Peter Moore (trombone) MSO / Wright Mote Hall / 4 December 2010 Haydn – Symphony 100 “Military” Emma Johnson (clarinet) David – Trombone Concerto MSO / Wright Dvorak – Slavonic Dances, Op.46 Schubert – Symphony No.8 “Unfinished” Weber – Clarinet Concerto No.1 Mote Hall / 6 February 2010 Delius – Sleigh ride Ben Hancox (violin) Elgar – Enigma Variations MSO / Wright Brahms – Tragic Overture Mote Hall / 5 February 2011 Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending Ulf Hoelscher (violin) Dvorak – Symphony No.8 MSO / Wright Holst – Egdon Heath Mote Hall / 27 March 2010 Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto Ching-Yun Hu (piano) Dvorak – Symphony No.9 “From the MSO / Wright New World” Elgar – Overture, Cockaigne Beethoven – Piano Concerto 1 Mote Hall / 26 March 2011 Tchaikovsky – Symphony 6 “Pathétique” John Lill (piano) MOS Centenary Concert Mote Hall / 22 May 2010 MSO / Wright Sylvia Chiesa (cello) Walton – Overture, Portsmouth Point MSO / Wright Brahms – Piano Concerto No.1 R. Strauss – Till Eulenspiegel John McCabe – Three Portraits from Lalo – Cello Concerto Arthur (première – MSO commission) Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique Britten – Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Mote Hall / 14 May 2011 Lawrence Rogers, John Thurgood, Peter Hatfield and Derek Parkins (horns) MSO / Wright Copland – Fanfare for the common man Schumann – Concertstuck for 4 horns Mahler – Symphony No.5 CONCERTS 1990/2015 4 2008/9 2007/8 Mote Hall / 18 October 2008 Mote Hall / 13 October 2007 Llyr Williams (piano) Jennifer Pike (violin) MSO / Wright MSO / Wright Dukas – The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Elgar/Payne – Pomp & Circumstance Schumann – Piano Concerto March 6 Vaughan Williams – Job (A Masque for Sibelius – Violin Concerto Dancing) Elgar – Symphony 2 Mote Hall / 6 December 2008 Mote Hall / 1 December 2007 Michael Thompson (horn) Freddy Kempf (piano) MSO / Wright MSO / Wright Sibelius – En Saga Brahms – Piano Concerto 2 R. Strauss – Horn Concerto 2 Bruckner – Symphony 6 Tchaikovsky – Symphony 5 Mote Hall / 2 February 2008 Mote Hall / 7 February 2009 Mark Simpson (clarinet) Guy Johnston (cello) MSO / Wright MSO / Wright Bizet – Carmen suite Hindemith – Symphonic Metamorphoses Weber – Clarinet Concerto 2 on themes by Weber Rachmaninov – Symphony 2 Elgar – Cello Concerto Bartok – Concerto for Orchestra Mote Hall / 15 March 2008 Sylvia Chiesa (cello) Mote Hall / 28 March 2009 MSO / Wright Tom Poster (piano) Ravel – La Valse MSO / Wright Tchaikovsky – Rococo Variations Mozart – Overture, The Magic Flute Nino Rota – Cello Concerto 1 Beethoven – Piano Concerto 5 Debussy – La Mer “Emperor” Brahms – Symphony 2 Mote Hall / 17 May 2008 Ronan O’Hora (piano) Mote Hall / 23 May 2009 MSO / Wright Ulf Hoelscher (violin) Walton – Spitfire Prelude & Fugue MSO / Wright Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto 1 Bernstein – Symphonic Dances, West Shostakovich – Symphony 10 Side Story Barber – Violin Concerto Saint-Saens – Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso Fauré – Pavane Ravel – Daphnis & Chloe Suite 2 CONCERTS 1990/2015 5 2006/7 2005/6 Mote Hall / 14 October 2006 Mote Hall / 15 October 2005 John Lill (piano) Helena Wood (violin) replacing an Brian Wright’s 60th Birthday Concert indisposed Magnus Johnston, Guy MSO / Wright Johnston (cello), Tom Poster (piano) George Hurst – Symphonic Variations MSO / Wright (première) Wagner – A Faust Overture Shostakovich – Symphony 6 Beethoven – Triple Concerto Rachmaninov – Piano Concerto 3 Sibelius – Symphony 2 Mote Hall / 2 December 2006 Mote Hall / 3 December 2005 Neil Jenkins (tenor), Peter Hatfield Emma Johnson (clarinet) (horn) MSO / Wright MSO / Wright Dvorak – Scherzo capriccioso Sibelius – Symphony 7 Simon Proctor – Clarinet Concerto Britten – Serenade (première) Dvorak – Symphony 7 Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade Mote Hall / 3 February 2007 Mote Hall / 4 February 2006 Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) Omar Guey (violin) MSO / Wright MSO / Wright Weber – Overture, Der Freischütz Mendelssohn – Overture, Ruy Blas Grieg – Piano Concerto Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto Beethoven – Symphony 6 “Pastoral” Schubert – Symphony 9 Mote Hall / 24 March 2007 Mote Hall / 18 March 2006 Nemanja Radulovic (violin) replacing Ulf Hoelscher (violin) the indisposed Barry Wilde MSO / Wright MSO / Wright R. Strauss – Wind Serenade Prokofiev – Lieutenant Kijé suite Beethoven – Violin Concerto Khachaturian – Violin Concerto Brahms – Symphony 4 Tchaikovsky – Symphony 2 “Little Russian” Mote Hall / 20 May 2006 Adrian Brendel (cello) Mote Hall / 19 May 2007 MSO / Wright Ben Hancox (violin), Robin Ashwell Walton – Partita (viola) Schumann – Cello Concerto MSO / Wright Elgar – Symphony 1 Mozart – Sinfonia Concertante Mahler – Symphony 6 CONCERTS 1990/2015 6 2004/5 2003/4 Mote Hall / 16 October 2004 Mote Hall / 11 October 2003 Ronan O’Hora (piano) Jennifer Pike (violin) MSO / Wright MSO / Wright Respighi – The Pines of Rome Bax – Tintagel Chopin – Piano Concerto 1 Bruch – Violin Concerto 1 Debussy – Prélude à l’après-midi d’un Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique faune Janacek – Sinfonietta Mote Hall / 29 November 2003 John Lill (piano) Mote Hall / 4 December 2004 MSO / Wright Adrian Brendel (cello) Britten – An American Overture MSO / Wright Brahms – Piano Concerto 1 Maxwell Davies – Ojai Festival Overture Elgar – Falstaff Dvorak – Cello Concerto Franck – Symphony Mote Hall / 7 February 2004 Ian Fountain (piano) Mote Hall / 5 February 2005 MSO / Wright Paul Benniston (trumpet) Falla – Three Dances, The three- MSO / Wright cornered hat Mendelssohn – Overture, The Hebrides Dvorak – Piano Concerto Hummel – Trumpet Concerto Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring Vaughan Williams – Symphony 2 “A London Symphony” (original version) Mote Hall / 20 March 2004 Richard Simpson (oboe) Mote Hall / 19 March 2005 MSO / Wright Chloë Hanslip (violin) Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on a theme MSO / Wright
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