SYMPHONIES

Arenski Symphony no.1

Balakirev Symphony no.1

Beethoven Symphonies nos.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9

Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

Bizet Symphony in C

Borodin Symphony no.2

Brahms Symphonies nos.1, 2, 3, & 4

Bruckner Symphony no. 4 (no. 3 studied as assistant)

Bruch Symphony no.3

Dvorak Symphonies nos.5, 6, 7, 8, & 9

Franck Symphony in D minor

Glazunov Symphony nos.4 & 5

Haydn Symphonies nos.6, 39, 70, 84, 88, 92 & 104

Alan Hovhaness Symphony no. 34 (european premiere)

Mahler Symphonies nos.1,4 (Caroline Brooke Lester), & 5

Mendelssohn Symphony nos.3 & 4

Mozart Symphonies nos.25, 29, 30, 31, 35, 36, 39, 40 & 41

Nielsen Symphony nos.1, 2, & 3 ‘Espansiva’

Rachmaninov Symphony no.2

Saint-Saens Symphony no.2

Franz Schmidt Symphony no.4

Schubert Symphonies nos.2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, & 9 (old numbering)

Schumann Symphony nos.1, 3, 4 (nos.1 - 4 studied as assistant)

Sibelius Symphony nos.1, 2, 3

Shostakovich Symphonies nos.5 & 9

Tchaikovsky Symphonies nos.1, 2, 4, 5 & 6

Vaughan Williams Symphony no.2 ‘London’

Wagner Symphony in C

 

OPERA

Bizet Carmen

Handel Giulio Cesare

Mozart Così fan tutte

Mozart Concert Aria 'Alma Grande'

arias from Die Zauberflöte; Don Giovanni; Il seraglio

Tchaikovsky Letter Scene from Eugene Onegin (Caroline Lester), Eugene Onegin (complete)

Verdi Rigoletto

 

Mozart studied as assistant:

Concert Aria 'Bella mia fiamma, addio!'

'Come scoglio' and 'Per pietà' (Così fan tutte)

'Porgi, amor' and 'Dove sono' (Le nozze di Figaro)

'Mi tradì quell'alma ingrata' and 'Non mi dir' (Don Giovanni)

Idomeneo

 

CONCERTOS

Albinoni Oboe Concerto op.9 no.2 (Julie Billingham)

Arutunyan Trumpet Concerto (Lydia Rothwell)

Bach Brandenburg Concertos 3,4,5,and 6 (directed from keyboard)

Beethoven Piano Concerto no.1 (Martin Roscoe; played/conducted), Piano Concerto no.3 (Martin Roscoe; played/conducted), Piano Concerto no.4 (Martin Roscoe; played/conducted), Piano Concerto no.5 (Martin Roscoe), Violin Concerto (Alexandra Wood, Sara Trickey, & Nathalie Shaw)

Berlioz Harold in Italy

Brahms Violin Concerto (Nathaniel Vallois & Nathalie Shaw)

Bruch Violin Concerto no.1 (Alexandra Wood & Rhys Watkins)

Crusell Clarinet Concerto (Victoria Rex)

David Concertino no.4 for trombone and orchestra (Rhiannon Symonds)

Dvorak Cello Concerto (Richard Jenkinson)

Elgar Cello Concerto (Polly Ballard)

Foss Renaissance Concerto (Alex Pearson)

Fridolfsson Forvantan (Corinne Frost)

Grieg: Piano Concerto (Samantha Ward)

Grøndhal Trombone Concerto (Peter Moore)

Haydn Cello Concertos in D (Philip Handy), in C (Benjamin Jones)

Hummel

Hoffmeister Viola Concerto (Matthew Kettle)

Korngold Violin Concerto (Ruth Rodrigues)

Liszt Piano Concerto no.2 (Ina Charuashvili)

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto (Madeleine Mitchell)

Mozart Horn Concerto K.495 (Kevin Boyd), Piano Concerto K.453 (Martin Roscoe, played/conducted), Piano Concerto K.466 (Ronan O'Hora, played/conducted), Piano Concerto K.467 (David Grundy, played/conducted), Piano Concerto K.488 (Martin Roscoe), Piano Concerto K.491 (Martin Roscoe, played / conducted), 'Lodron' Concerto for three pianos (Michelle Kwok, Cherry Cheung, Catherine Hornby, Sarah Assaf, Susannah Phillipson, Sharon Hou, Winnie Au-Yeung, Teresa Ma, Vivian Chak), Sinfonia Concertante (Qian Wu, Matthew Kettle), Violin Concerto K.219 (Diedre Ward), Sinfonia Concertante (Aeolus Wind Quintet)

Neruda Trumpet Concerto (Lydia Rothwell)

Nyman On the fiddle (Madeleine Mitchell)

Saint-Saens Cello Concerto nos.1 (Richard Jenkinson) & 2 (Helen Thompson)

Schumann Piano Concerto (Alfred Brendel) (assistant) (Penelope Roskell), Violin Concerto (Christian Tetzlaff) (assistant), Cello Concerto (Troels Svane), Konzertstück (Alison Bach, Hazel Whitefoot, Simon Hall, Nicky Daw)

Shostakovich Piano Concerto no.2 (Michelle Tong); Cello Concerto no.1 (Richard Jenkinson)

Stravinsky Concerto for piano and winds (Philip Mead)

Prokofiev Piano Concerto no.3 (Simon Callaghan) & Violin Concerto no.2 (Alexandra Wood)

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto nos.2 (Juliet Allen & Simon Callaghan) and 3 (Aydin Onac & Simon Callaghan)

Ravel Piano Concerto in G (Nicholas Loh)

Schubert / Liszt: 'Wanderer' Fantansy (Simon Callaghan)

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (Judith Templeman); Rococo Variations (Corinne Frost, Philip Handy)

Stephen Webster Piano Concerto in D flat (Stephen Webster)

Vivaldi A minor Cello Concerto (Eleanor Mackereth)

Weber Andante e rondo ungarese for viola and orchestra (Matthew Kettle); Concertino (Kevin Boyd), Clarinet Concerto no.2 (Nikki Loveridge)

 

CONCERTOS DIRECTED FROM THE KEYBOARD

Mozart K.271, 453, 466, 467, 491

Beethoven nos. 1, 3 & 4

 

OTHER ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

Barber Adagio

Bartok Concerto for Orchestra, Divertimento, Romanian Folk Dances

Beethoven Overtures 'Coriolan', 'Leonora no.3', 'Fidelio' , 'The Creatures of Prometheus', 'King Stephen', Contredanses WoO14, Grosse Fuge (arr. Weingartner), 'Egmont'

Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture

Bizet Carmen Suites

Bliss March 'Things to Come'

Borodin Polovtsian Dances

Brahms Tragic Overture, Variations on a theme of Haydn, Serenade no.1, Hungarian Dances, Academic Festival Overture

Britten The Ascent of F6

Butterworth A Shropshire Lad

Chabrier: España, Joyeuse marche

Cherubini Medea Overture

Copland Appalachian Spring (original version for 13)

Mervyn Cooke The Gallery

Yi Cheng Chiang New Work

Peter Cowdrey Solihull Ceileidh (first performance)

Debussy Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Dvorak In Nature's Realm, The Golden Spinning Wheel, Othello, Slavonic Dances, Symphonic Variations, Legends (complete)

Elgar Pomp and Circumstance Marches nos.1 and 4, Enigma Variations, Wand of Youth Suite no.1

Manuel de Falla: Siete Canciones Populares (Margaret Cooper)

Fauré Pavane, Pelléas et Mélisande

Franck Le chasseur maudit, Les Éolides

Gaukroger / Carr Romany Wood (Nick Owen, narrator; massed choirs from Birmingham Schools)

Glinka Overture Ruslan and Ludmilla, A Life for the Tsar

Alexander Goehr Sinfonia

Richard Green Io, Yellow Cherries (first performances)

Grieg: Peer Gynt (Suites 1 and 2)

Holst The Planets

Honegger Pacific 231

Katie Honey The fox jumps over the wall (first performance)

David Hume Overture to a forgotten Story (first performance), Through the Looking Glass (first performance)

Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel Overture

Ibert Divertissement

Ives The Unanswered Question

Khachaturian Masquerade

Paul von Klenau Paulo und Francesca

Liszt Les Preludes

Lutoslawski Concerto for Orchestra, Chain 1

Tom Littlewood Five Orchestral Miniatures (first performance)

Mahler Adagietto from Symphony no.5

Mendelssohn 'Hebrides', ‘Heimkehr aus der Fremde’, and ‘Ruy lBas’ Overtures, Midsummer Night's Dream incidental music (complete)

Milhaud La Création du Monde

Silvina Milstein Labyrinth (Premiere, Quincentenary Commission, Jesus College Cambridge)

Mozart Overtures ‘Die Entführung aus dem Serail’, ‘La Clemenza di Tito’, 'Don Giovanni', 'The Impresario', 'Idomeneo', 'Magic Flute', Adagio and Fugue (K456), Serenade 'Gran partita','Eine kleine Nachmusik', Exsultate jubilate KV165 (Caroline Lester)

Mussorgsky / Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition

Nielsen Helios Overture

Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (excerpts), Peter and the Wolf (Sylvia Heal, MP)

Purcell Chacony (z730)

Rachmaninov Vocalise, Scherzo in D minor

Ravel Pavane, Daphnis et Chloé (suite no.2), Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé (Elizabeth Toye), Introduction and Allegro (Catherine White)

Rossini Overtures ‘Cenerentola’, ‘Italian Girl in Algiers’, ‘Thieving Magpie’, ‘William Tell’

Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre

Schubert Die Zauberharfe Overture, Rosamunde (Bühnenmusik, "Death and the Maiden' (arranged Mahler)

Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Genoveva Overture

Smetana Sarka, Ma Vlast 1-4

Spiegl Radio 4 Theme

Shostakovich 'Festive' Overture, Chamber Symphony no.1 (arranged Barshai)

Sibelius Pelléas und Mélisande, Karelia, Finlandia

Strauss Metamorphosen, Four Last Songs (Zoë Milton-Brown)

Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Winds (Philip Mead), Octet, Rite of Spring, Dumbarton Oaks, Four Norwegian Moods, Suite no.1 for small orchestra

Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini, 'Nutcracker' Suite, 'Romeo and Juliet', Serenade for Strings, 'Swan Lake', Capriccio Italien

Thomas Master David's Prelude (first performance)

Vaughan Williams Tallis Fantasia

Verdi Overture 'La forza del destino'

Veit Concert Overture (first U.K. performance)

Wagner 'Rienzi', 'Die Meistersinger', 'Tannhäuser', Ride of the Walküre

Walton 'Spitfire' Prelude

Weber Overtures 'Der Freischutz', 'Oberon'

Webern Passacaglia op.1, Five Pieces op.10

 

ORATORIO

Bach B minor Mass (rehearsals)

Brahms German Requiem (rehearsals)

Fauré Requiem (rehearsals)

Handel Saul (Bryn Terfel, Ian Bostridge, Lisa Milne, Joan Rodgers, Toby Spence, Scottish Chamber Orchestra / 
Sir Charles Mackerras) (assistant)

Mozart Exsultate Jubilate (Margaret Cooper)

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