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Past Concerts

This list provides an overview of the works played by Abergavenny Symphony Orchestra in recent years. We also keep a more complete list of our Repertoire and the works in our Library. We have recordings of some of these concerts.

2022

  • Suppé – Overture: Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna
  • Iestyn Harding – Sur le Bout des Doigts (Premiere)
  • Debussy – Prélude à l’après-midi d’un Faune
  • Grieg – Symphonic Dances
  • Richard Strauss – Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments, Op. 7
  • Tchaikovsky – Serenade for Strings, Op. 48
  • Dvořák – Symphony No 8

2021

  • Holst – St Paul’s Suite, Op. 29
  • Elgar – Serenade for Strings, Op. 20
  • Holst – Suite 2, Op. 28
  • Bach – Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578
  • Grainger – Lincolnshire Posy
  • Holst – Suite 1, Op. 28

2019

  • Strauss – Also sprache Zarathustra / Sunrise
  • Holst – The Planets / Jupiter
  • Harrison – Here comes the sun
  • Williams – The Force Awakens Suite
  • Gray – Thunderbirds March
  • Mancini – Moon River
  • Williams – Imperial March / Darth Vader’s theme
  • Williams – E.T. Adventures on Earth
  • Suk – Scherzo Fantastique
  • Berlioz – Harold in Italy
    Viola: Philip Heyman
  • Sibelius – Symphony No 7
  • Dvořák – Carnival Overture
  • Hoddinott – Welsh Dances Suite 1
  • Arutiunian – Trumpet Concerto
    Trumpet – Emily Humphries
  • Liszt – Les Préludes
  • Borodin – In the Steppes of Central Asia
  • Berlioz – Rákóczy March
  • Sibelius – Karelia Overture
  • Barber – Violin Concerto
    Violin – Dennis Simons
  • Vaughan Williams – A London Symphony (No 2)
  • Shostakovich – Symphony No 7 (workshop)

2018

  • Arlen – The Wizard of Oz
  • Williams – Harry Potter, Hedwig’s Theme
  • Sherman & Sherman – Mary Poppins Selection
  • Shore – Lord of the Rings Theme
  • Tchaikovsky – Nutcracker Suite
  • Anderson-Lopez & Lopez – Music from the film ‘Frozen’
  • Butterworth – The Banks of Green Willow
  • Elgar – Sea Pictures
    Mezzo Soprano – Lowri Probert
  • Brahms – Symphony No 2
  • Warren – Gwent Carnival Overture
  • Beethoven – Leonore No 3 Overture
  • Massenet – El Cid Ballet Music
  • Hérold – Zampa Overture
  • Strauss – Blue Danube
  • Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No 2
  • Rossini – William Tell Overture
  • Schubert – Symphony No 8 (Unfinished)
  • Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto
    Violin – Cristian Grajner de Sa
  • Mahler – Symphony No 5 (workshop)

2017

  • Sullivan – The Pirates of Penzance Overture
  • Menken – The Little Mermaid
  • Iestyn Harding – I Saw Three Ships
  • Newbold – A Pirates Legend
  • Wood – Fantasia on British Sea Songs
  • Badelt – Pirates of the Caribbean
  • Berlioz – Benvenuto Cellini Overture
  • Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez
    Guitar – Giacomo Susani
  • Shostakovich – Festive Overture
  • Sibelius – Symphony No 5
  • Sibelius – Finlandia
  • Sibelius – Valse Triste
  • Shostakovich – Suite for Variety Orchestra
  • Tchaikovsky – Suite No 3
  • Sibelius – En Saga
  • Strauss – Horn Concerto No 1
    Horn – Peter Geraghty
  • Tchaikovsky – Symphony No 2 (Little Russian)
  • Mahler – Symphony No 2 (workshop)

2016

  • Fučík – Entrance of the Gladiators
  • Iestyn Harding – Hunting Lions
  • Rossini – The Thieving Magpie Overture
  • Bucalossi – Grasshopper’s Dance
  • Saint-Saëns – Elephants & Swan from Carnival of the Animals
  • Iestyn Harding – Silly Old Baboon
  • Sherman & Sherman – The Jungle Book
  • Anderson – Sleigh Ride
  • Marks – Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
  • Pierpont – Jingle Bells
  • Neville John – The Triumph of Aberfan
  • Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto
    Violin – Mathilde Milwidsky
  • Saint-Saëns – Symphony No 3 (Organ)
  • Tchaikovsky – Capriccio Italien
  • Morricone – Gabriel’s Oboe
  • Beethoven – Symphony No 8
  • Mendelssohn – Hebrides Overture
  • Weber – Invitation to the Dance
  • Rimsky-Korsakov – Capriccio Espagnol
  • Dvorak – Cello Concerto
    Cello – Rosie Biss
  • Dvorak – Symphony No 8
  • Shostakovich – Symphony No 10 (workshop)

2015

  • Emile Waldteufel – The Skaters’ Waltz (Les Patineurs)
  • Prokofiev – Troika
  • Music from the film ‘Frozen’
  • Tchaikovsky – Excerpts from The Nutcracker
  • Wagner – Flying Dutchman Overture
  • Sibelius – Violin Concerto
    Violin – Cristian Grajner De Sa
  • Mendelssohn – Symphony No 3 (Scottish)
  • Mendelssohn – Overture and Incidental Music for a Midsummer Night’s Dream (selection)
  • Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Trumpets
    Trumpet – Paul Kelly & Martin Rogers
  • Grieg – Peer Gynt Suite No 1
  • Khachaturian – Adagio “Spartacus & Phrygia”
    (Theme tune for “The Onedin Line”)
  • Tchaikovsky – Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture
  • Nielsen – Helios Overture
  • Schumann – Cello Concerto
    Soloist: Rosie Biss
  • Sibelius – Symphony No 2

2014

  • Beethoven – Symphony No 9
    with Crickhowell Choral Society and The Glam Reunion Choir
    Llio Evans – Soprano
    Dawn Burns – Mezzo soprano
    Ben Thapa – Tenor
    Sion Goronwy – Bass
  • Holst – The Planets (workshop)
  • Wagner – Rienzi Overture
  • Mozart – Concerto for Flute & Harp
    Heather Leighton – Flute
    Llywelyn Ifan Jones – Harp
  • Ravel – Tzigane
    Beth Fuller-Teed – Violin
  • Rimsky-Korsakov – Symphonic Suite, ‘Antar’
  • Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No 2
    Soloist: Paul McKenzie
  • Tchaikovsky – Symphony No 5
  • Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition (workshop)
    Guest conductor: Tianyi Lu

2013

  • Stanford – Irish Rhapsody No 1
  • Britten – Matinées Musicales
  • Vaughan Williams – Symphony No 3 (Pastoral)
  • Warren – Gwent Carnival Overture
  • Grieg – Solveig’s Song
  • Mozart – Horn Concerto No 3
    Soloist: Hannah Stonelake
  • Dukas – Fanfare to La Péri
  • Strauss – Serenade for Winds
  • Sibelius – Karelia Suite
  • Smetana – Vltava
  • Prokofiev – Violin Concerto No 2
    Soloist: Lydia Marshall
  • Dvorak – Symphony No 9 (New World)

2012

  • Mozart – Magic Flute Overture
  • Shostakovich – Cello Concerto No 1
    Soloist: Adi Tal
  • Tchaikovsky – Symphony No 4
  • Verdi – La Forza del Destino Overture
  • Bruch – Scottish Fantasy
    Soloist: Oliver Lewis
  • Mendelssohn – Symphony No 5
  • Brahms – Variations on a Theme of Haydn
  • Hofmann – Flute Concerto in D
    Soloist: Catherine Handley
  • Brahms – Symphony No 3

2011

  • Humperdinck – Hansel & Gretel Overture
  • Weber – Bassoon Concerto
    Soloist: Meyrick Alexander
  • Mahler – Symphony No 4
    Soloist: Emily Griffiths
  • Benjamin Frank Vaughan – Akiko (new commission)
  • Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf
    Narrator: Ian Milton
  • Tchaikovsky – Nutcracker Suite
  • Schubert – Symphony No 8 (Unfinished)
  • Sibelius – Finlandia
  • Grieg – Piano Concerto
    Soloist: Zi Wang
  • Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique

2010

  • Wagner – Die Meistersinger Overture
  • Elgar – Cello Concerto
    Soloist: Parry Karp
  • Dvorak – Symphony No 7
  • Bernstein – Overture to Candide
  • Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez
    Soloist: Nils Klöfver
  • Beethoven – Symphony No 6
  • Bernstein – West Side Story Symphonic Dance Suite (workshop)
  • Hamilton Harty – A Comedy Overture
  • Elgar – Sea Pictures
    Soloist Sally Martin
  • Brahms – Symphony No 1

2009

  • Brahms – Tragic Overture
  • Haydn – Trumpet Concerto, soloist Chris Avison
  • Sibelius – Symphony No 5
  • Delius – Summer Night on the River
  • Aaron Copland – Appalachian Spring
  • Beethoven – Symphony No 2
  • Glinka – Russlan & Ludmilla Overture
  • Malcolm Arnold – Flute Concerto No 1, Soloist Catherine Handley
  • Rachmaninoff – Symphony No 2
  • Elgar – Symphony No 1 (Orchestral Workshop)

2008

  • Vaughan Williams – English Folk Song Suite
  • Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending. Soloist: Gillian Bradley
  • Rimsky Korsakov – Scheherazade. Guest Leader: Will Hillman
  • Janacek – Three Lachian Dances
  • Bizet – Symphony in C
  • Mozart – Marriage of Figaro overture
  • Beethoven – violin concerto. Soloist: Laurence Kempton
  • Dvorak – Symphony No 6

2007

  • Beethoven – Egmont Overture
  • Mozart – Horn Concerto No 4. Soloist: Ian Fisher
  • Beethoven – Symphony No 3 Eroica
  • Bernard – Divertissment for Wind Dectet
  • Mozart – Symphony No 35
  • Tchaikovsky – Symphony No 6
  • Mendelssohn – Hebrides Overture “Fingal’s Cave”
  • Faure – Pavane
  • Percy Grainger – An Irish Tune from County Derry
  • Walton – Crown Imperial
  • Henry Wood – Fantasia on British Sea Songs

2006

  • Hamish MacCunn – Land of the Mountain and the Flood
  • Dvorak – The Noonday Witch
  • Ronald Binge – Saxophone Concerto, Soloist Jennifer Bostic
  • Sibelius – Symphony No 1
  • Guy Woolfenden – Serenade for Sophia
  • Malcolm Arnold – Trevelyan Suite
  • Elgar – Serenade for Strings op. 20
  • Haydn – Symphony No 101
  • Holst – The Planets (workshop)
  • Rossini – Barber of Seville Overture
  • Mozart – Sinfonia Concertante K364, Soloists: Ruth Bass & Philip Heyman
  • Shostakovich – Symphony No 5

2005

  • Mendelssohn – Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave)
  • Bliss – Checkmate Suite
  • Beethoven – Symphony No 7
  • Mozart – Symphony No 29
  • Haydn – Symphony No 101
  • Dvorak – Czech Suite
  • Beethoven – Symphony No 1
  • Shostakovich – Festival Overture
  • Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto, Soloist Oliver Lewis
  • Borodin – Symphony No 2

2004

  • Brahms – Academic Festival Overture
  • Walton – Henry V Suite, Narrator Gareth Bale
  • Franck – Symphony in D minor
  • Haydn – Symphony No 104
  • Francaix – Sept Danse (wind dectet)
  • Raff – Allegro from Sinfonietta
  • Mozart – A Musical Joke
  • Ravel – Pavane pour une Infante Defunte
  • Schubert – Overture: Rosamunde
  • Dvorak – Symphony No 8

2003

  • Berlioz – Roman Carnival Overture
  • Bruch – Violin Concerto, soloist Nicholas Ramanes
  • Brahms – Symphony No 2
  • Arnold – Little Suite for Orchestra
  • Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake Suite
  • Shostakovich – Jazz Suite No 2
  • Prokofiev – Classical Symphony
  • Mozart – Clarinet Concerto, Soloist Elizabeth Owen
  • Beethoven – Symphony No 5

2002

  • Vaughan Williams – A London Symphony
  • Walton – Crown Imperial
  • Walton – Viola Concerto, Soloist Philip Heyman
  • Gounod – Petite Symphony
  • Rutter – Suite Antique for Flute, Soloist Bethan Barlow
  • Rachmaninoff – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
  • Strauss – Blue Danube Waltz
  • Borodin – Polovtsian Dances
  • Arutiunian – Trumpet Concerto, Soloist Alan McDonald
  • Saint-Saëns – Symphony No 3

2001

  • Strauss – Suite for 13 Wind Instruments
  • Ney Rosauro – Concert for Marimba, soloist Andrea McLaren
  • Sibelius – Symphony No 2
  • Beethoven – Overture No 3 (Leonore)
  • Strauss – Horn Concerto No 1, Soloist Ian Fisher
  • Schubert – Symphony No 9 in C

2000

  • Neville John – Overture The Triumph of Aberfan
  • Mozart – Clarinet Concerto, Soloist Robert Watson
  • Coates – London Suite
  • Tchaikovsky – Symphony No 4
  • Mozart – Overture: Marriage of Figaro
  • Brahms – Violin Concerto, Soloist Magnus Johnston
  • Debussy – Ballet
  • Faure – Pavane
  • Beethoven – Symphony No 8

1999

  • Strauss – Die Fledermauss
  • Canteloube – Songs of the Auvergne
  • Mansel Thomas – Three Welsh Melodies
  • Dvorak – Symphony No 9, The New World Symphony
  • Mozart – Overture Don Giovanni
  • Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto, Soloist Nicola Hatfield
  • Beethoven – Symphony No 7

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