Solent Sinfonia 6. Saturday 2nd December 1972 Southampton Art Gallery 1. Friday 3rd December 1971 Southampton Art Gallery Conductor: Ward Gardner Conductor: Ward Gardner Soloist: Alan Durkin (piano) Leader: Joan Schmeising Mozart: Overture ‘The Magic Flute’ Corelli: Concerto Grosso No.8 (Christmas Concerto) Mozart: Piano Concerto No.17 in G, k453 Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring Bizet: Suite ‘Jeux d’Enfants’ Grieg: Two Elegiac Melodies Franck: Symphonic Variations Haydn: Symphony No. 104 7. Saturday 17th March 1973 2. Wednesday 22nd March 1972 Southampton Art Gallery Southampton Art Gallery Conductor: Ward Gardner Conductor: Ward Gardner Leader: Brian Mould Soloists: Morris Binns (clarinet) Soloist: Lloyd Bates (trumpet) Joan Schmeising (violin) Dorothy Williams (violin) Schubert: Ballet Music from ‘Rosamunde’ Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in Eb Gluck: Overture ‘Alceste’ Handel: Concerto Grosso in F, Op.6, No.9 Mozart: Clarinet Concerto Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor Bach: Concerto for two violins Schubert: Symphony No.5 8. Saturday 8th April 1973 Southampton Art Gallery 3. Friday 12th May 1972 Beaulieu Abbey Concert for the Society of Designer-Craftsmen Conductor: Ward Gardner Conductor: Ward Gardner Choir: New Forest Singers Soloists: Pauline Buijink (flute) Celia Chambers (flute) Vivaldi: Beatus Vir Vicki Kent (cello) 4. Saturday 24th June 1972 Locke: Music for Sackbuts and Cornetts Southampton Art Gallery Solo pieces for cello and flute Bach: Concerto for three harpsichords Conductor: Ward Gardner Soloist: Alexander Orba (flute) 9a. Friday 4th May 1973 Southampton Art Gallery Schubert: Overture ‘Rosamunde’ Handel: Entry of the Queen of Sheba Conductor: Ward Gardner Schubert: Symphony No.8 in B minor Leader: Brian Mould Delius: Prelude to Irmelin Soloists: Valerie Marshall (contralto) Bach: Orchestral Suite No.2 David Earwood (bass) Choir: New Forest Singers 5. Friday 3rd November 1972 Southampton Art Gallery ‘Music for Royal Occasions by Handel’ Zadok the Priest Conductor: Ward Gardner Water Music (excerpts) Soloists: Valerie Nunns (soprano) Dettingen Te Deum David Scott (tenor) Choir: New Forest Singers 9b. Saturday 5th May 1973 Beaulieu Abbey Church Purcell: Music for Queen Mary’s Funeral Mozart: Exultate Jubilate Repeat concert Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus Vivaldi: Beatus Vir 10. Saturday 23rd June 1973 14. Saturday 9th November 1974 Southampton Art Gallery Southampton Art Gallery Conductor: Ward Gardner Conductors: Ward Gardner Soloist: Paul Bateman (piano) John Hawker Soloist: William Buchan (tuba) Rossini: Overture ‘The Thievish Magpie’ Haydn: Symphony No.4 in G ‘Homage to Vaughan-Williams’ Shostakovitch: Piano Concerto No.2 Prokofiev: March from ‘Love of Three Oranges’ English Folk Songs Suite Prelude – 49th Parallel 11. Friday 23rd November 1973 Concerto in F minor for bass tuba Fareham Technical College Symphony No.5 in D Conductor: Ward Gardner 15. Thursday 20th February 1975 Soloist: Simon Wills (trombone) Southampton Guildhall Offenbach: Overture ‘Orpheus in the Underworld’ Conductor: Ward Gardner Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor Soloists: Alfredo Campoli (violin) Gordon Jacob: Trombone Concerto Joan Schmeising (violin) Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela Sibelius: Karelia Suite Rossini: Overture – Semiramide Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor 11(b) Saturday 24th November 1973 Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso Op.3 No.8 for two violins Southampton Art Gallery Schubert: Symphony No.8 in B minor Repeat concert 16. Saturday 14th June 1975 Turner Sims Concert Hall 12. Saturday 16th March 1974 Southampton Art Gallery Conductors: Ward Gardner John Hawker Conductor: Ward Gardner Soloists: Kelvin Grout (piano) Soloists: Orchestra principals: Alexander Orba (piccolo) Alec Orton (oboe) David Beech (clarinet) Bartok: Rumanian Dances Christopher Blake (horn) Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor Suzanne Chappell (bassoon) Vivaldi: Concerto for flauto piccolo Dvořák: Symphony No.7 in D minor Wagner: Prelude – ‘Die Meistersinger’ Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for wind 17. Friday 17th October 1975. Schubert: Symphony No.9 in C Southampton Guildhall 13. Saturday 22nd June 1974 Conductor: Ward Gardner Southampton Art Gallery Soloists: Iris Loveridge (piano) Valerie Nunns (soprano) Conductor: Ward Gardner with Alan Durkin (piano) Soloists: Joan Schmeising (violin) Andrew Ball (piano) Glinka: Overture – Russlan and Ludmilla Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2 Handel: Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 12 Mozart: Concert Aria – ‘Ch’io mi scordi di te / Non Delius: Violin Concerto temer, amato bene’ Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4 Dvořák: Symphony No.9 (New World) 18. Wednesday 4th February 1976 22. Thursday 4th November 1976 Southampton Guildhall Southampton Guildhall Conductor: Ward Gardner Conductor: Ward Gardner Soloist: John Wilbraham (trumpet) Soloist: Carlos Bonell (guitar) Wagner: Overture ‘Rienzi’ Bizet: Carmen Suite No.2 Sibelius: Suite ‘Rakastava’ Rodrigo: Fantasia para un Gentilhombre Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in Eb Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 in E minor Sibelius: Symphony No.5 23. Friday 11th February 1977 19. Sunday 16th May 1976 Southampton Guildhall Southampton Guildhall Conductor: Robert Rawson Conductor: Ward Gardner Soloists: Alfredo Campoli (violin) Soloist: Gayle Smith (cello) Joan Schmeising (violin) Walton: March ‘Crown Imperial’ McCunn: Land of the Mountain and the Flood Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No.1 Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor Schubert: Symphony No.9 in C Bach: Double Concerto in D minor Smetana: Excerpts from ‘Ma Vlast’ 20(a) Tuesday 25th May 1976 Southampton Art Gallery 24. Tuesday 7th to Saturday 12th March 1977 Southampton Guildhall Conductor: Ward Gardner Pit orchestra for Southampton Operatic Society Sullivan: Overture ‘Yeomen of the Guard Gilbert and Sullivan: The Gondoliers Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Purcell: Suite ‘Abdelazar’ 6 performances Locke: Music for His Majesty’s Sackbuts and Cornetts 25. Tuesday 10TH October 1977 Vaughan Williams: Two English Miniatures Turner Sims Concert Hall Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring Conductor: Ward Gardner Schubert: Symphony No.8 in B minor Soloists: Madeleine Cross (flute) Suzanne Chappell (bassoon) 20(b) Thursday 3rd June 1976 Kurfurstliches Schloss, Mainz Nicolai: Overture ‘Merry Wives of Windsor’ Repeat concert Gluck: Dance of the Blessed Spirits Grieg: Holberg Suite 20 c) Friday 18th June 1976 Elgar: Romance for bassoon & orchestra Canford School, Wimborne, Dorset Fauré: Pavane Repeat concert Gounod: Ballet Music from Faust 21. Monday 4th October 1976 26a Thursday 3rd November 1977. Southampton Art Gallery Canford School, Wimborne Conductor: Robert Rawson Conductors: Ward Gardner David Benké Concert for Civic Reception for Mayor Soloist: Paul Bateman (piano) Viennese Music Beethoven: Overture ‘Egmont’ Elgar: Chanson de Matin Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 (Emperor) Gounod: Faust Ballet Music (excerpts) Brahms: Symphony No.2 in D Bizet: Carmen Suite (excerpts) 26b Friday 4th November 1977 Southampton Guildhall Repeat concert 27. Friday 3rd February 1978 31. Friday 21st July 1978 Southampton Guildhall Southampton Art Gallery Conductor: Robert Rawson Conductor: Robert Rawson Soloist: Christopher Hirons (violin) Austrian Evening Borodin: Overture ‘Prince Igor’ Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Op.35 32a Tuesday 10th October 1978 Rimsky- Korsakov: Procession of the Nobles Wessex Hall, Poole Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.2 in C minor Conductor: David Benke 28. Tuesday 8th to Saturday 11th March 1978 Soloist: Rosemary Wright (piano) Southampton Guildhall Mendelssohn: Overture ‘Ruy Blas’ Pit orchestra for Southampton Operatic Soc. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 in C Conductor: Ward Gardner Fauré: Dolly Suite Bizet: Carmen Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition 6 performances 32b Saturday 13th October 1978 Southampton Guildhall 29a Thursday 11th May 1978 Repeat concert Fareham Church 33. Tuesday 21st November 1978 Conductor: Ward Gardner Southampton Guildhall Soloist: Robert Harris (horn) Conductor & Soloist: Alfredo Campoli Bruckner: Overture in G minor Delius: Walk to the Paradise Garden Mozart: Serenade ‘Eine Kleine Nachtmusik’ Balfour Gardiner: Shepherd Fennel’s Dance Schubert: Symphony No.8 in B minor Mozart: Horn Concerto No.3 Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Schumann: Symphony No.3 (Rhenish) ORCHESTRA RENAMED 29b Friday 12th May 1978 ‘CITY OF SOUTHAMPTON ORCHESTRA’ Southampton Guildhall Repeat concert 34. Friday 16th February 1979 Southampton Guildhall 29c Tuesday 30th May 1978 Gmunden, Austria Conductor: Robert Rawson Soloist: Gayle Smith (cello) Repeat concert except Horn concerto Replaced by Bach: Concerto for 2 violins Dvořák: Overture ‘Carnival’ Soloists: Jane Ingamells Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor Martin Smith Dvořák: Symphony No.8 in G 29d Wednesday 31st May 1978 Salzburg, Austria 35. Tuesday 5th to Saturday 10th March 1979 Repeat concert as 29(a) Southampton Guildhall 29e Thursday 1st June 1978 Pit orchestra for Southampton Operatic Soc. Bad Ischl, Austria Repeat concert as 29(a) Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance 6 performances 30. Saturday 1st July 1978 St. Mary’s Church 36. Saturday 28TH April 1979 Temple Protestant, Le Havre Conductor: Ronald Jenkinson Conductor: Robert Rawson For the Ordnance Survey Choral Society Soloist: Adam Hunter (cello) Fauré: Requiem Bruckner: Overture in G minor Meyerbeer: Coronation March Bruckner: Mass No.3 in F minor Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor Dvořák: Symphony No.8 in G 42. Wednesday 21st November 1979 37. Friday 4th May 1979. Southampton Guildhall Southampton