Just for the record, here’s what the ESO has been up to in recent seasons....
2007/8
2006/7
2005/6
2004/5
2003/4
2002/3
2001/2
2000/1
1999/2000
Ealing Symphony Orchestra
2007/8 season
Saturday, October 6th 2007, 7.30 pm
St Martin’s Church, Hale Gardens, London W3
SHOSTAKOVICH: Festival Overture
Randall THOMPSON: Symphony No. 2
TCHAIKOVSKY: Concert Overture, “Hamlet”
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 7
Tickets £10 (concessions £8, accompanied children £1)
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Saturday, November 24th 2007, 7.30pm
St Martin’s Church, Hale Gardens, London W3
Violin: FENELLA HUMPHREYS
BRAHMS: Academic Festival Overture
ELGAR: Violin Concerto
Malcolm ARNOLD: Symphony No. 2
Tickets £10 (concessions £8, accompanied children £1)
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Saturday, December 1st 2007
Thame Leisure Centre, Oxford Road, Thame, Oxon. OX9 2BB
The LORD WILLIAMS’S FESTIVAL CHORUS
Violin: NICOLA BENEDETTI
BRAHMS: Academic Festival Overture
SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto
KARL JENKINS: The Armed Man
A Lord Williams’s Festival Chorus event. Details from their website.
Saturday, February 2nd 2008, 7.30 pm
St Barnabas’s Church, Pitshanger Lane, London W5 1QG
Cello: YUKI ITO (Ealing Festival winner 2007)
BLISS: Suite, “Things to Come”
TCHAIKOVSKY: Rococo Variations
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 8
Tickets £10 (concessions £8, accompanied children £1)
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Saturday, March 8th 2008, 7.30 pm
St Barnabas’s Church, Pitshanger Lane, London W5 1QG
Piano: MASA TAYAMA
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 4
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5
Tickets £10 (concessions £8, accompanied children £1)
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Saturday, April 26th 2008
Thame Leisure Centre, Oxford Road, Thame, Oxon. OX9 2BB
The LORD WILLIAMS’S FESTIVAL CHORUS
ELIZABETH SIKORA (mezzo soprano), ADRIAN THOMPSON (tenor), ANDREW JARVIS (baritone)
ELGAR: The Dream of Gerontius
A Lord Williams’s Festival Chorus event. Details from their website.
Saturday, June 28th 2008, 7.30pm
St Mary’s, Perivale Lane, Perivale, Middlesex. UB6 8SS
ESO INSTRUMENTAL GROUPS
Short pieces by Doppler, Schubert, Hoyland, Thuille,
Beethoven and Borodin for wind, strings, mezzo soprano and piano,
will be followed by a complete performance of:
DVORAK: Serenade, Op. 44
Conductor: Graham Ross
A Friends of St Mary’s Perivale event.
Free, with retiring collection. No tickets issued in advance
Saturday, July 12th 2008, 7.30 pm
St Barnabas’s Church, Pitshanger Lane, London W5 1QG
Soloist a secret, but the word seemed to get around!
CHAUSSON: Poème for Violin and Orchestra
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending
MAHLER: Symphony No. 1
Tickets £10 (concessions £8, accompanied children £1)
Sold out! We had a waiting list for returned tickets.
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Ealing Symphony Orchestra
2006/7 season
Saturday, October 7th 2006, 7.30 pm
St Martin’s Church, Hale Gardens, London W3
Violin: ROLF WILSON
Cello: DAVID BURROWES
WAGNER: Prelude Act III, Lohengrin
BRAHMS: Double Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No.12
Tickets £10 (concessions £8, accompanied children £1)
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Saturday, November 25th 2006, 7.30pm
St John’s Church, Mattock Lane, London W13
Guitar: MORGAN SZYMANSKI
John ADAMS: The Chairman Dances
RODRIGO: Concierto de Aranjuez
Karl JENKINS: Passacaglia
Malcolm ARNOLD: Symphony No. 1
Tickets £10 (concessions £8, accompanied children £1)
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Saturday, February 17th 2007, 7.30 pm
St Barnabas’s Church, Pitshanger Lane, London W5
Piano: JING OUYANG (Ealing Festival winner 2006)
BAX: The Tale the Pine Trees Knew
LISZT: Piano Concerto No. 1
GRIEG: Norwegian Dances
RESPIGHI: The Pines of Rome
Tickets £10 (concessions £8, accompanied children £1)
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Saturday, March 24th 2007
Thame Arts and Leisure Centre, Thame, Oxfordshire
The LORD WILLIAMS’S FESTIVAL CHORUS
Soloists: MIRIAM MURPHY, HARRIET WILLIAMS, ADRIAN THOMPSON, ANDREW JARVIS
VERDI: Requiem
A Lord Williams’s Festival Chorus event. Details from their website.
Saturday, May 12th 2007, 7.30 pm
St Barnabas’s Church, Pitshanger Lane, London W5
Piano: MASA TAYAMA
MOERAN: Symphony in G minor
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 3
Tickets £10 (concessions £8, accompanied children £1)
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Saturday, June 30th 2007, 8 pm
Clifton Cathedral, Bristol
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Tallis Fantasia
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7
Tickets £10 (concessions £8, accompanied children £1)
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Saturday, July 14th 2007, 7.30 pm
St Mary’s, Perivale Lane, W5
CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT
presented by members of the Ealing Symphony Orchestra
David HOYLAND: La Ultima Noche
MARTINU: Trio for Flute, Bassoon and Piano
POULENC: Brass Trio
MOZART: Clarinet Quintet (2 movts)
GLINKA: Trio Pathétique
SCHUBERT: The Shepherd on the Rock
SULLIVAN / Jones: Tunes from the Mikado
A Friends of St Mary’s Perivale event
Sunday, July 22nd 2007, 7.30 pm (time to be confirmed)
The Swan Theatre, High Wycombe
GALA CONCERT
in aid of IAIN RENNIE HOSPICE AT HOME
ANNA LEESE (soprano), ADRIAN THOMPSON (tenor),
ANDREW STAPLES (tenor), MICHAEL DEWIS (baritone)
WYCOMBE PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
LORD WILLIAMS’S FESTIVAL CHORUS
– and of course your Prom favourites
An Iain Rennie Hospice at Home event
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Ealing Symphony Orchestra
2005/6 season
Saturday, October 8th 2005, 7.30 pm
St Martin’s Church, Hale Gardens, London W3
Guest conductor: JOHN ANDREWS
BEETHOVEN: Overture, Leonore No. 3
COPLAND: Appalachian Spring
DVORAK: Symphony No. 9 (From the New World)
Tickets £10 (concessions £8, accompanied children £1)
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Saturday, November 26th 2005, 7.30pm
St John’s Church, Mattock Lane, London W13
BORIS BROVTSYN (violin)
William ALWYN: Symphony No. 5
The centenary of Alwyn’s birth is on November 7th
KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto
RACHMANINOV: The Isle of the Dead
MARTINU: Symphony No. 2
Tickets £10 (concessions £8, accompanied children £1)
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Saturday, February 11th 2006, 7.30 pm
St Barnabas’s Church, Pitshanger Lane, London W5
’Cello: JUN SASAKI (Ealing Festival winner 2005)
ELGAR: ’Cello Concerto
MAHLER: Symphony No. 5
Tickets £10 (concessions £8, accompanied children £1)
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Saturday, April 1st 2006, 7.30 pm
St Barnabas’s Church, Pitshanger Lane, London W5
Violin: FENELLA HUMPHREYS
SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Concerto No. 1
SCRIABIN: Symphony No. 2
Tickets £10 (concessions £8, accompanied children £1)
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Sunday, June 25th 2006, 7.30 pm
St John’s, Smith Square, London SW1
Piano: SIMON MULLIGAN
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 5
Tickets £12 (concessions £2 reduction)
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Ealing Symphony Orchestra
2004/5 season
Saturday, October 9th 2004, 7.30 pm
St Martin’s Church, Hale Gardens, London W3
’Cello: BOZIDAR VUKOTIC
PARRY: Symphonic Variations
SHOSTAKOVICH: ’Cello Concerto No. 1
NIELSEN: Symphony No. 2 (The Four Temperaments)
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Saturday, November 27th 2004, 7.30pm
Clifton Cathedral, Clifton Park, Bristol
Recorders: ALISON BALDWIN
John WILLIAMS: Star Wars Suite
David BEDFORD: Recorder Concerto
HOLST: The Planets
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Saturday, February 12th 2005, 7.30 pm
St Barnabas’s Church, Pitshanger Lane, London W5
Piano: ASHLEY FRIPP (joint Ealing Festival winner 2004)
Grant STILL: Afro-American Symphony
LISZT: Totentanz
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 5
Tickets £9 (concessions £7, accompanied children £1)
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Saturday, April 23rd 2005, 7.30 pm
Acton Town Hall, High Street, London W3
Double bass: MEHERBAN GILLETT (joint Ealing Festival winner 2004)
CHARITY CONCERT
(in aid of the Mayor’s charities for the disadvantaged of the Borough)
to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the London Borough of Ealing,
St GEORGE’S DAY and the feastday of William SHAKESPEARE
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Greensleeves
ELGAR: Nimrod
KOUSSEVITSKY: Double Bass Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo and Juliet
ELGAR: Symphony No. 1
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Sunday, June 19th 2005, 7.30 pm
St John’s, Smith Square, London SW1
Piano: KATYA APEKISHEVA
(ESO commission: first performance)
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 1
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2
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Saturday, July 9th 2005, 7.30 pm
RAF Halton, Wendover, Buckinghamshire
Soprano: ANNA LEESE
Tenor: ANDREW STAPLES
The HIGH WYCOMBE ORPHEUS MALE VOICE CHOIR
St AUGUSTINE’S CHURCH CHOIR
GATEWAY SCHOOL CHOIR
EALING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conductor: JOHN GIBBONS
To celebrate 20 years of the Iain Rennie Hospice at Home
A magical evening of music and song – all your favourite
Proms music in the impressive Drill Hall at RAF Halton
From 5 pm come and picnic in the grounds of Halton
and listen to the jazz of George Brown and ‘Anything Goes’
Iain Rennie Hospice at Home: registered charity no. 297847
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Ealing Symphony Orchestra
2003/4 season
Saturday, October 11th 2003, 7.30 pm
St Martin’s Church, Hale Gardens, London W3
’Cello: BOZIDAR VUKOTIC
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 1
MARTINU: The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca
DVORAK: ’Cello Concerto
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Saturday, November 29th 2003, 7.30pm
Clifton Cathedral, Bristol
LORI ISLEY LYNN (soprano)
AMANDA PYKE (mezzo soprano)
THE MILTON KEYNES CHORALE
CLIFTON CATHEDRAL FESTIVAL CHORUS
MAHLER: Symphony No. 2 (“Resurrection”)
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Saturday, February 7th 2004, 7.30 pm
St James’s Church, St James Avenue, London W13
Pianos: RICHARD PAIN, TIMOTHY CROMPTON
BLISS: “Checkmate” Suite
POULENC: Concerto for Two Pianos
STRAVINSKY: “The Firebird” Suite (1945)
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Saturday, March 20th 2004, 7.30 pm
St Barnabas’s Church, Pitshanger Lane, London W5
Viola: ARUN MENON
(Ealing Festival overall concerto award winner 2003)
Soprano: NATALIE DICKSON
Contralto: AMANDA PYKE
Tenor:
JOSÉ APARACIO
Bass baritone: CHRISTOPHER FOSTER
THE MILTON KEYNES CHORALE
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9
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Sunday, May 30th 2004, 8 pm
Antonius van Paduakerk, Groesbeekseweg 96, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
THE ALPHONS DIEPENBROCK STUDENT CHOIR
Members of the EALING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conductor: GIJS LEENAARS
BRITTEN: Sinfonietta
ELGAR: Ave Maria & Ave Maris Stella
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: An Oxford Elegy
Sunday, June 20th 2004, 7.30 pm
St John’s, Smith Square, London SW1
Piano: DINA PARAKHINA
PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 2
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1
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with the Lord Williams’s Singers on December 6th in Thame, Oxon.
It accompanied the Singers again in an Opera Gala concert on Saturday, March 27th.
Ealing Symphony Orchestra
2002/3 season
Saturday, October 26th 2002, 7.30 pm
St Martin’s Church, Hale Gardens, London W3
Recorders: ALISON BALDWIN
RUBBRA: Festival Overture
BARBER: Essay No. 1
David BEDFORD: Recorder Concerto
DVORAK: Symphony No. 7
Saturday, December 7th 2002, 7.30 pm
St Barnabas’s Church, Pitshanger Lane, London W5
Piano: TIMOTHY CROMPTON
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concerto No. 2
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 1
Saturday, February 8th 2003, 7.30 pm
St John’s Church, Mattock Lane, London W13
Violin: SIMON HEWITT JONES
Ealing Festival overall concerto award winner 2002
BUTTERWORTH: Rhapsody: A Shropshire Lad
PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 2
BARTÓK: Concerto for Orchestra
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Sunday, March 30th 2003, 7.30 pm
St Barnabas’s Church, Pitshanger Lane, London W5
MAHLER: Symphony No. 6
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Sunday June 15th 2003, 7.30 pm
St John’s, Smith Square, London SW1
Organ: ROBERT HOUSSART
POULENC: Organ Concerto
SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No. 3 (“Organ”)
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Thursday July 24th 2003, 8 pm
St Martin’s Church, Hale Gardens, London W3
Kwintessens
Catherine Fox
The Alphons Diepenbrock Student Choir (Nijmegen)
Members of the Ealing Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Gijs Leenaars
MOZART: Symphony No. 33
VIVALDI: Magnificat
MONTEVERDI: Sestina
BACH: Cantata No. 131 (Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu Dir)
Tickets £6 (concessions £5)
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Ealing Symphony Orchestra
2001/2 season
Saturday, October 13th 2001, 7.45 pm
St Barnabas’s Church, Pitshanger Lane, W5
Contralto: LIANE KEEGAN
GRIFFES: The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan
CHAUSSON: Poème de l’Amour et de la Mer
MAHLER: Kindertotenlieder
STRAUSS: Death and Transfiguration
Sunday, December 2nd 2001, 7.45 pm
St Barnabas’s Church, Pitshanger Lane, W5
80th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
Piano: RICHARD PAIN
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 2
ELGAR: Salut d’Amour
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: A London Symphony
Saturday, February 9th 2002, 7.45 pm
St John’s Church, Mattock Lane, W13
Flute: KATHERINE BICKNELL
Ealing Festival overall concerto award winner 2001
COPLAND: El Salón México
NIELSEN: Flute Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 10
Saturday, April 20th 2002, 7.45 pm
St Martin’s Church, Hale Gardens, W3
Piano: HUGH MATHER
SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto
WALTON: Symphony No. 1
Sunday June 16th 2002, 7.30 pm
St John’s, Smith Square, SW1
Piano: KATYA APEKISHEVA
PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 3
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6 (“Pathétique”)
Ealing Symphony Orchestra
2000/1 season
Saturday, October 7th 2000, 7.45 pm
St Barnabas's Church, Pitshanger Lane, W5
Contralto: LIANE KEEGAN
Tenor: JAMES HANCOCK
WAGNER: Siegfried's Rhine Journey
BAX: November Woods
MAHLER: Das Lied von der Erde
Sunday, December 3rd 2000, 7 pm
Ealing Town Hall, New Broadway, W5
"THE FULL SPECTRUM"
Flute: HEATHER BROWN
Alto saxophone: TONY WOODS
Sitar: GURDEV SINGH
African drums: ANGATA
WALTON: Facade Suite
Laura ROSSI: Under the Rainbow
First performance of an ESO commission
supported by the National Federation of Music Societies
with funds provided by the London Arts Board
POULENC/Berkeley: Flute Sonata
GERSHWIN: An American in Paris
Saturday, February 3rd 2001, 7.45 pm
St Martin's Church, Hale Gardens, W3
JANE GORDON (violin)
Ealing Festival overall concerto award winner 2000
BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto
DVORAK: Symphony No. 6
Saturday, March 24th 2001, 7.45 pm
St Martin's Church, Hale Gardens, W3
'Cello: RACHAEL BUCKNALL
Max BRUCH: Kol Nidrei
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 4
Sunday June 17th 2001, 7.30 pm
St John's, Smith Square, London SW1
Violin: DAVID JURITZ
WALTON: Violin Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4
Ealing Symphony Orchestra
1999/2000 season
Saturday, October 16th 1999, 7.45 pm
St Martin's Church, Hale Gardens, London W3
Soprano: JOANNA COLE
TCHAIKOVSKY: Overture, "Romeo and Juliet"
STRAUSS: Four Last Songs
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 6
Saturday, December 11th 1999, 7.45 pm
St Barnabas's Church, Pitshanger Lane, London W5
Soprano: ZOË SOUTH
WALTON: Overture, "Portsmouth Point"
Hamilton HARTY: The Children of Lir
ELGAR: Symphony No. 2
Saturday, February 19th 2000, 7.45 pm
St Martin's Church, Hale Gardens, London W3
KIM ASHTON (oboe)
Ealing Festival overall concerto award winner 1999
Guest conductor: ROBERT WIFFIN
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Oboe Concerto
RAUTAVAARA: Cantus Arcticus
PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 7
Saturday, April 15th 2000, 7 pm
St Martin's Church, Hale Gardens, London W3
Compère: ALAN GILLETT
A FAMILY CONCERT
with introductions for children
..... a chance to CONDUCT THE ORCHESTRA!
TRIPP/KLEINSINGER: Tubby the Tuba
Walter PISTON: The Incredible Flutist
BRITTEN: Four Sea Interludes (Peter Grimes)
Malcolm ARNOLD: Scottish Dances
Friday June 16th 2000, 7.30 pm
St John's, Smith Square, London SW1
HORN QUARTET led by MICHAEL THOMPSON
in aid of the Dream Flight charity
SCHUMANN: Konzertstück for Four Horns
RACHMANINOV: Symphony No. 2
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