Courage and Honour - Spring Concert
Saturday 29th March 2025 - Malmesbury Abbey
Programme:
John Williams (arr. Sweeney): Hymn to the Fallen
Borodin: Symphony No. 2
Michael Kamen (arr. Phillippe): Band of Brothers
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Massenet: Suite from Le Cid
Sibelius: Finlandia
Winter Concert - Celtic Connections
Saturday 30th November 2024 - St Andrews, Chippenham
Programme:
Mendelssohn: Overture to The Hebrides
Stanford: Irish Rhapsody No.1
Grace Williams: Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes
Amy Beach: Gaelic Symphony
Summer Concert - Variations on a Theme
Saturday 22nd June 2024 - St Andrews, Chippenham
Programme:
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Love and Loss - Spring Concert
Saturday 16th March 2024, 19:30, Malmesbury Abbey
Programme:
Khachaturian: Adagio from Spartacus
Grieg: Ase's Death from Peer Gynt Suite No.1
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite No.2 (Extracts)
Holst: A Somerset Rhapsody
Mendelssohn: Overture to a Midsummers Night's Dream
Holst: I'll Love my Love from the 2nd Suite for Military Band in F
Rachmaninov: Adagio from Symphony No.2
Horner/Moss: Titanic Suite
A Festive Journey - Winter Concert
Saturday 2nd December 2023, 19:30, St Pauls Church, Chippenham
Programme:
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Christmas Overture
Balmages: Fantasia on We Three Kings
Glazunov: Winter from the Seasons
Delius and Anderson: Sleighrides
The French Connection - Summer Concert
Saturday 8th July 2023, 19:30, St Andrew's Church, Chippenham
Programme:
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 "Organ"
Chaminade: Pas des Cymbales from Callirhoë
Dukas: Fanfare from La Péri
Gounod: Funeral March of a Marionette
Ravel: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
Gershwin: An American in Paris
A Matter of Life and Death - Spring Concert
Saturday 25th March 2023, 19:30, St Andrew's, Chippenham
Programme:
R Strauss: Intro to Also Sprach Zarathustra
Sibelius: The Swan of Tuolena
Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead
Puccini: Crisantemi
Walton: Crown Imperial
Bruch: Symphony No. 3
Witches, Wizards and Fairy Tales - Winter Concert
Sunday 4th December 2022, 14:30 (Matinee), Devizes Corn Exchange
Programme:
Noon Witch (Dvorak)
Extracts from Harry Potter Suite (Williams)
Hansel and Gretel Overture (Humperdink)
The Three Bears Suite (Coates)
Aladdin Suite (Nielsen)
Summer concert - WCO Goes to the Movies
Saturday 9th July 2022, 19:30, St Andrews Church, Chippenham
Music from:
Mission Impossible
Gladiator
The Pink Panther
Les Misérables
Star Trek
Witches of Eastwick
Star Wars
ET
West Side Story
Spring Concert
Saturday 26th March 2022, 19:30, Malmesbury Abbey
Programme:
Kalinnikov - Symphony No. 1
Schumann - Konzertstück for 4 Horns and Orchestra
Rossini - Overture to the Thieving Magpie
Winter Concert: A WINTER'S TALE
Sunday 5th December, 14:30, Devizes Corn Exchange
Programme:
Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake Suite
Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite
Music from Frozen
Beauty and the Beast
Soloviev-Sedoy - Moscow Nights
Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain
Winter Concert 2019: Elemental
Saturday 7th December, 19:30, St Andrew's Church, Chippenham
Programme:
Game of Thrones
Helios Overture
Hebrides Overture
Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Winter (Glazunov)
Conga del Fuego
Summer concert 2019: Music inspired by Dance
Saturday 6th July 2019, 19:30
Programme:
Classical music inspired by dance, including extracts from:
Carmen Suite - Bizet
Aida - Verdi
Swan Lake - Tchaikovsky
Slavonic Dances - Dvorak
And many more!
Romantic Favourites - Saturday 30th March 2019
Malmesbury Abbey, 19:30
Programme:
Weber: Peter Schmoll
Mendelssohn: Violin concerto
(Soloist: Eloisa-Fleur Thom)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 5
Summer Concert - Saturday 14th July 2018
Devizes Corn Exchange, 19:30
Programme:
Symphony No. 9 'From the New World' - Antonin Dvorak
Mambo from West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein
An American in Paris - George Gershwin
Cowboys Overture - John Williams
Spring Concert - Saturday 28th April 2018
Malmesbury Abbey, 19:30
Programme:
Overture Overture to The Magic Flute - Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 1 - Beethoven. Soloist: Max Li
Symphony No. 2 - Brahms
Myths and Legends - Saturday 9th December 2017
Devizes Corn Exchange, 19:30
Programme:
Die Loreley Overture - Bruch
Selection of solo arias (Soloist: Stephanie Harrison)
King Arthur Suite - Elgar
Pictures at an Exhibition - Mussorgsky
A Night at the Movies - Saturday 8th July 2017
Devizes Corn Exchange, 19:30
Programme:
Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner
Adagietto, Symphony No. 7 - Beethoven
Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana - Mascagni
Irish Tune from County Derry - Grainger
Night on a Bare Mountain - Mussorgsky
Theme from Gladiator - Zimmer
Star Wars Suite (extracts) - Williams
Theme from Forrest Gump - Silvestri
Gabriel's Oboe - Morricone
Jaws Suite - Williams
Spring Concert - Saturday 29th April 2017
Malmesbury Abbey, 19:30
Programme:
Grieg - Wedding Day at Troldhaugen
Grieg - Last Spring (from Two Elegiac Melodies)
Grieg - Piano Concerto (Soloist: You-Chiung Lin)
Sibelius - Andante Festivo
Sibelius - Symphony No. 3
Sibelius - Finlandia
Winter Concert - Sunday 4th December
Devizes Corn Exchange, 3:00pm
Programme:
Dvorak - Slavonic Dances (Op. 46 Nos. 7 and 8; Op. 72 No. 2)
Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Sibelius - Karelia Suite
Tchaikovsky - Nutrcracker Suite
Selection of carols
Anderson - Christmas Festival
Music for a Summer's Evening - Saturday 16th July 2016
Devizes Corn Exchange, 19:30
Programme:
Sullivan: Overture to The Gondoliers
Coates: London Suite
Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad
Britten: Soirèes Musicales
Henry Wood: Fantasia on Sea Songs
Saturday 9th April 2016
Malmesbury Abbey, 19:30
Programme:
Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture
Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 ("Eroica")
