Wolverhampton Symphony Orchestra

Wolverhampton Symphony Orchestra

Performances  2013 – 2018

Performances from the 2013-2014 season
Conductor – Peter Morris     Leader – Ros Rayner

21st September 2013 – Wolverhampton Music School, Graiseley  Program PDF
A charity concert in aid of the Friends of the Music School
Handel – Eight Movements from The Water Music
Frank Bridge – Three Miniatures for String Trio
Music for Brass Group:
  -Paul Dukas – Fanfare ‘La Peri’Peter Warlock
  – Three Movements from the Capriol SuiteJerome Kern
  – All the things you are
Dvorak – Third and First Movements from the Piano Quintet
Haydn – Symphony No. 94 in G major (The “Surprise” Symphony)

Saturday, 26th October 2013 from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm      – Wolverhampton Music School
A free fun play for any instrumentalists at Wolverhampton Music School Mahler’s 5th Symphony

23rd November 2013 – Cranmer Methodist Church (40th Anniversary concert with cake!)   Program PDF
Elgar – Cockaigne Overure
Holst – Somerset Rhapsody
Warlock – Capriol Suite
Coates – Dambusters’ March
Elgar – Enigma Variations

Saturday, 22nd March 2014 at 7.30 pm      Program PDF
 – Cranmer Methodist Church, Newhampton Road West,
             Wolverhampton, WV6 0RS
Dvorak – American Suite
Brahms – Violin Concerto in D major – Soloist: Nicole Wilson
Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 in C minor

Saturday, 21st June 2014 at 7.30 pm       Program PDF
 – Cranmer Methodist Church, Newhampton Road West,
     Wolverhampton, WV6 0RS

Carl Nielsen – Helios Overture
Chopin – Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor – Soloist: Petra Milarova
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 2 in C minor (The Little Russian)

Performances from the 2014-2015 Season
Conductor – Peter Morris     Leader – Ros Rayner

Saturday 20th September 2014 19:30
    – Charity Concert at Wolverhampton Music School
Brass section pieces: including Pirates of the Caribbean
Beethoven Symphony No 1
Plus Wind & String pieces
Bach – Brandenburg Concerto no 3

Saturday, 25th October 2014 from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm
   – Wolverhampton Music School
A free fun play for any instrumentalists at Wolverhampton Music School
 Elgar’s 2nd symphony

Saturday 15th November 2014 19:30         Program PDF
– A Shakespeare concert  at  Wolverhampton Grammar School
Weber – Oberon Overture
Mendelssohn – Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shostakovich – Hamlet Suite
Walton – Richard III Suite
Tchaikovsky – Romeo and Juliet

Saturday March 14th 2015  19:30   Program PDF             
      at  Wolverhampton Grammar School
 Rossini – Thieving Magpie Overture
 John Ireland – Piano Concerto in E flat   (Soloist Petra Milarova)
 Dvorak –  New World Symphony

Saturday June 27th 2015 19:30                   Program PDF
at  Wolverhampton Grammar School
 Elgar Imperial March  
 Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
 Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
 Parry Symphony No3

Performances from the 2015-2016 Season
Conductor – Peter Morris     Leader – Ros Rayner

Saturday, 29th October 2015 from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm     
Play day at Wolverhampton Music School   
Shostakovich  symphony no 7 (Lenningrad)

Saturday November 21st 2015 19:30              Program PDF
at  Wolverhampton Grammar School
 Johann Strauss  –  Overture to Die Fledermaus
 Camille Saint-Seans  –  Suite Algerienne
 Richard Strauss  –  Concerto no2 for French Horn and Orchestra
 Johannes Brahms  –  Symphony no 3

Saturday March 12th 2016 19:30     Program PDF
at  Wolverhampton Grammar School
 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky  –  1812 Overture
 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov –  Tsar Sultan
 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky  –  Symphony no 4

Saturday June 25th 2016 19:30        Program PDF
at  Wolverhampton Grammar School
 A concert of film music, including:
  Star Wars, Superman, Harry Potter, Jurassic park,    Schindler’s List, Titanic,  Themes from 007,
   The King’s Speech (Allegretto from Beethoven 7)

Performances from the 2016-2017 Season
Conductor – Peter Morris     Leader – Ros Rayner

Saturday, 29th October 2016 from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm
Play day at Wolverhampton Music School
      Bruckner – Symphony no 7

Saturday November 19th 2016 19:30     Program PDF
at  Wolverhampton Grammar School   
  Dmitri Shostakovich  –  Jazz Suite no 2
  Richard Strauss  – Till Eulenspiegel   
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky  –  Nutcraker Suite   
  Leroy Anderson  –  Sleigh Ride

Saturday March 11th 2017 19:30        Program PDF
at St Peter’s Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton.  
   Ralph Vaughan Williams  –  Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
   Rory Freckleton  –  Piano Concerto (world premiere)
   Gustav Holst  –  The Planets Suite

Saturday June 24th 2017 19:30      Program PDF
at  Wolverhampton Grammar School   
  Jean Sibelius  –  Karelia Suite    
Jean Sibelius  –  The Swan of Tuonela  
 Jean Sibelius  –  Finlandia   
Dmitri Shostakovich  –  Symphony no 5

Performances from the 2017-2018 Season
Conductor – Peter Morris     Leader – Ros Rayner

Saturday November 18th 2017  19:30     Program PDF
at Wolverhampton Grammar School    
  George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
  Gerald Finzi: Clarinet concerto    (Soloist Anton Clarke-Butler)
  Johannes Brahms:  Symphony no 1

Saturday March 18th 2018  19:30       Program PDF
at Wolverhampton Grammar School
  Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
  Korngold: Violin concerto (Soloist Zoe Beyers)
  Tomlinson:  Suite of English Folk Dances

Saturday June 23rd 2018  19:30       Program PDF
at Wolverhampton Grammar School
  Stravinsky:  Firebird Suite
  Marquez:   Danzon no 2
  Ponchielli:   Dance of the Hours
  J Strauss 2:    The Blue Danube Waltz
  Weber:    Invitation to the Dance
 Borodin:   Polovtsian Dances