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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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  • Petr Limonov Longer

    Petr Limonov Longer

    Winner of the Nikolai Rubinstein Piano Competition and a pupil of Maria João Pires and Dmitri Alexeev, award-winning Russian-British pianist and conductor Petr Limonov frequently performs across Europe and the UK, having collaborated with, among others, Boris Berezovsky, Maria João Pires, Nicola Benedetti, Laura van der Heijden, Jennifer Pike, Leonard Elschenbroich, Natalie Clein and Van Kujik Quartet. He has recorded for Decca, Onyx Classics, Chandos and Champs Hill labels; the “1948” album, recorded with Laura van der Heijden, received the “Edison Klassiek” award in 2018 and the BBC “Newcomer of the Year” award in 2019. Petr’s notable appearances include La Roque d’Antheron festival (Boris Berezovsky’s Carte Blanche, broadcast by radio France Musique), Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, Kings Place, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Southbank Cen- tre, the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, a recital in The Duke’s Hall for HRH Prince Charles, iTunes Festival, TV appearances for BBC Proms Extra, Podium Witteman and broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and “Culture” TV channel (Russia). In 2017, his arrangement of the Auld Lang Syne (from Nicola Benedetti’s “Homecoming” album, Decca, 2014) was performed in the Albert Hall at the BBC Proms. His repertoire stretches from Orlando Gib- bons to Arvo Pärt. Born in Moscow, Petr started playing the piano at the age of 5. A year later he entered the prestigious Moscow Central Music School, where he studied under the guidance of Siavush Gadjiev, Valery Piasetsky and, later, Andrei Pisarev. After winning First Prize at the Nikolai Rubin- stein International Piano Competition in Paris he started giving con- certs throughout Europe and Russia, supported by the Vladimir Spivakov International Foundation.