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Concert History
Banbury Symphony Orchestra gave its first concert in the summer of 1961, in the school hall of what was then Banbury Grammar School (now Wykham Park Academy), conducted by Malcolm B. Sargent
Since then we have given concerts every year, apart from 2020. You can see a list of all of the concerts which the orchestra has given since then, together in many cases with the original programme notes.
25 November 2023
St Peter's Church, Deddington
Conductor:
Paul Willett
Soloists
Yoanna Prodanova | Cello |
Beethoven | Ov. Egmont |
Finzi | Cello Concerto |
Rachmaninoff | Symphony No. 2 in E minor |
10 December 2022
St Mary's Church, Banbury
Conductor:
Paul Willett
Soloists
Jonathan Rowe | Narrator |
Anderson | Christmas Festival Overture |
Waldteufel | Skater's Waltz |
Paul & Teresa Jennings | Around the World at Christmas Time |
Anna Kuzina-Rozhdestvenska | Breath of Life |
Lawrence Killian | A Christmas Carol |
Jule Styne | Let it snow! |
Marks | Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer |
Hugh Martin | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas |
Traditional | Carols |
Anderson | Sleigh Ride |
Holder | Merry Christmas Everybody |
26 November 2022
St Peter's Church, Deddington
Conductor:
Paul Willett
Soloists
Madalina Rusu | Piano |
Grieg | Ov. In Autumn |
Rachmaninoff | Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini |
Anna Kuzina-Rozhdestvenska | Breath of Life |
Kalinnikov | Symphony No. 1 |
11 December 2021
St Mary's Church, Banbury
Conductor:
Paul Willett
Soloists
Jonathan Rowe | Narrator |
Caroline Humphrys | Soprano |
Hely-Hutchinson | Adeste Fideles from A Carol Symphony |
Anderson | Christmas Festival Overture |
Howard Blake | The Snowman |
Marks | Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer |
Trad | Carols |
Anderson | Sleigh Ride |
Holder | Merry Christmas Everybody |
23 November 2019
St Peter's Church, Deddington
Conductor:
Paul Willett
Soloists
Madalina Rusu | Piano |
Weber | Ov. Der Freischütz |
Grieg | Piano Concerto in A minor |
Bruckner | Symphony No. 6 in A major |
25 November 2017
St Peter's Church, Deddington
Conductor:
Paul Willett
Soloists
Madalina Rusu | Piano |
Glinka | Ov. Ruslan and Ludmilla |
Rachmaninoff | Piano Concerto No. 2 |
Tchaikovsky | Manfred Symphony in B minor |
1 July 2017
St Mary's Church, Banbury
Conductor:
Paul Willett
Soloists
Yoanna Prodanova | Cello |
Jennifer Heim | Soprano |
Walton | Crown Imperial |
Elgar | Cello Concerto |
Shostakovitch | Jazz Suite No. 2 |
Borodin | Polovtsian Dances |
Henry Wood | Fantasia on British Sea Songs |
Johann Strauss I | Radetzky March |
Parry | Jerusalem |
Elgar | Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 |
12 December 2015
St Mary's Church, Banbury
Conductor:
Paul Willett
Soloists
Humperdinck | Ov. Hänsel und Gretel |
Tchaikovsky | Excerpts from The Nutcracker Suite |
Anderson | Christmas Festival Overture |
Waldteufel | Skater's Waltz |
Marks | Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer |
Anderson | Sleigh Ride |
Trad | Carols |
21 November 2015
St Peter's Church, Deddington
Conductor:
Paul Willett
Soloists
Madalina Rusu | Piano |
Brahms | Academic Festival Overture |
Dohnányi | Variations on a Nursery Tune |
Liszt | Symphonic Poem Mazeppa |
Schumann | Symphony No. 4 |
13 December 2014
St Mary's Church, Banbury
Conductor:
Paul Willett
Soloists
Prokofiev | Peter and the wolf |
Leroy Anderson | Sleigh Ride |
Trad | Carol - Hark the Herald Angels Sing |
Trad | Carol - God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen |
Anderson | Christmas Festival Overture |
28 June 2014
St Mary's Church, Banbury
Conductor:
Paul Willett
Soloists
Karina Bell | Harp |
Elgar | Polonia Overture |
Kelly | Elegy for strings and harp |
Britten | Sinfonia da Requiem |
Elgar | Enigma Variations |
Elgar | Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 |
29 March 2014
St Mary's Church, Banbury
Conductor:
Paul Willett
Soloists
Rossini | Ov. The Thieving Magpie |
Grieg | Symphonic Dances Op. 64 |
Berlioz | Symphony Fantastique |
14 December 2013
St Mary's Church, Banbury
Conductor:
Paul Willett
Soloists
Jonathan Rowe | Narrator |
Tavia Lewis | Soprano |
Humperdinck | Ov. Hänsel und Gretel |
Howard Blake | The Snowman |
Trad | Carol - Hark the Herald Angels Sing |
Trad | Carol - God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen |
Anderson | Christmas Festival Overture |
Waldteufel | Skater's Waltz |
Leroy Anderson | Sleigh Ride |
Marks | Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer |
Hugh Martin | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas |
Trad | Carol - O Come All Ye Faithfull |
15 December 2012
St Mary's Church, Banbury
Conductor:
Paul Willett
Soloists
Serena Holbech | Soprano |
Suppé | Ov. Poet and Peasant |
Tchaikovsky | Excerpts from Swan Lake Suite |
Gluck | O del mio dolce ardor |
John Ireland | The Holy Boy |
Johann Strauss I | Radetsky March Op. 229 |
Waldteufel | Skater's Waltz |
Trad | Carol - The First Nowell |
Anderson | Christmas Festival Overture |
Trad | Carol - O Come All Ye Faithfull |
Johann Strauss II | Tales from the Vienna Woods |
Johann Strauss II | Tritsch-Tratsch Polka Op.217 |
Trad | Carol - God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen |
Hugh Martin | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas |
Leroy Anderson | Sleigh Ride |
Trad | Carol - Hark the Herald Angels Sing |
10 December 2011
St Mary's Church, Banbury
Conductor:
Paul Willett
Soloists
Jonathan Rowe | Narrator |
James Bolton-King | Tuba |
Smetana | Ov. The Bartered Bride |
George Kleinsinger | Tubby the Tuba |
Waldteufel | Skater's Waltz |
Hugh Martin | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas |
Trad | Carol - The First Nowell |
Leroy Anderson | Christmas Festival Overture |
Trad | Carol - O Come All Ye Faithfull |
Johann Strauss II | On the Beautiful Blue Danube |
Trad | Carol - God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen |
Marks | Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer |
Leroy Anderson | Sleigh Ride |
Trad | Carol - Hark the Herald Angels Sing |
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