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.

6 July 2024

St Mary's Church, Banbury

Conductor:

Paul Willett

Vítězslava Kaprálová	Suita rustica, op. 19
Stravinsky	Suite The Firebird
Florence Price	Symphony No. 1 in E minor

Elgar	String Serenade
Dvořák	Serenade for Wind Op. 44
Louise Farrenc	Symphony No. 3 in G minor, Op. 36

Ethel Smyth	Ov. The Wreckers
Dvořák	American Suite
Leokadiya Kashperova	Symphony in B minor op. 4

Anderson	Christmas Festival Overture
Waldteufel	Skater's Waltz
Jule Styne	Let it snow!
Lawrence Killian	Mince Spies

Beethoven	Ov. Egmont
Finzi	Cello Concerto
Rachmaninoff	Symphony No. 2 in E minor

Zachary Hayward	Horn
Alex Willett	Horn
Jake Parker	Horn
Caoime Glavin	Horn

Elgar	Ov. Froissart
Schumann	Konzertstück for Four Horns and Orchestra
Bruckner	Symphony No. 4 in Eb

Angelika Stangl	Violin
Catherine Strachan	Cello
David Hammond	Piano

Rossini	Ov. The Italian girl in Algiers
Beethoven	Triple concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello Op. 56
Mendelssohn	Symphony No. 4

Halvorsen	Norwegian Rhapsody No 1
Dvořák	A Hero's Song
Amy Beach	Gaelic Symphony

Jonathan Rowe	Narrator
Sarah Johnston	Librettist

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

Grieg	Ov. In Autumn
Rachmaninoff	Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
Anna Kuzina-Rozhdestvenska	Breath of Life
Kalinnikov	Symphony No. 1

Delius	Summer Evening
Rodrigo	Concierto de Aranjuez
Dvořák	Symphony No. 9 in E minor

Beethoven	Ov. Coriolanus
Richard Strauss	Suite for 13 Wind Instruments in Bb Op. 4
Schubert	Symphony No. 6

Humperdinck	Ov. Hänsel und Gretel
Tchaikovsky	The Tempest
Sibelius	Symphony No. 2 in D

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

Brahms	Academic Festival Overture
Elgar	Enigma Variations
Tchaikovsky	Symphony No. 6 in B minor

Weber	Ov. Der Freischütz
Grieg	Piano Concerto in A minor
Bruckner	Symphony No. 6 in A major

Walton	Scapino
Bruch	Violin Concerto No. 1
Rimsky-Korsakov	Scheherazade

Holst	Fugal Overture
Delius	Over the Hills and Far Away
Barton	Accord
Elgar	Enigma Variations

Bruckner	Overture in G minor
Walton	Viola Concerto in D
Bruch	Symphony No. 3

Ibert	Overture de fête
Sibelius	Violin concert
Gillis	Symphony No. 5½
Mussorgsky arr. Ravel	Pictures at an Exhibition

Mendelssohn	Ov. The Hebrides
Saint-Säens	Suite in D major
Beethoven	Symphony No. 8 in F major

Concert History

6 July 2024

St Mary's Church, Banbury

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19 May 2024

St Peter's Church, Hook Norton

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16 March 2024

St Peter's Church, Deddington

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9 December 2023

St Mary's Church, Banbury

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25 November 2023

St Peter's Church, Deddington

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8 July 2023

St Mary's Church, Banbury

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14 May 2023

St Peter's Church, Deddington

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25 March 2023

St Peter's Church, Deddington

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10 December 2022

St Mary's Church, Banbury

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26 November 2022

St Peter's Church, Deddington

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9 July 2022

St Mary's Church, Banbury

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22 May 2022

St Peter's Church, Hook Norton

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26 March 2022

St Peter's Church, Deddington

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11 December 2021

St Mary's Church, Banbury

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27 November 2021

St Peter's Church, Deddington

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14 December 2019

St Mary's Church, Banbury

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23 November 2019

St Peter's Church, Deddington

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29 June 2019

St Mary's Church, Banbury

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23 March 2019

St Peter's Church, Hook Norton

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24 November 2018

St Peter's Church, Deddington

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Ravel	La Valse
Bartók	Concerto for Orchestra
Rachmaninoff	Symphonic Dances

Glinka	Ov. Ruslan and Ludmilla
Rachmaninoff	Piano Concerto No. 2
Tchaikovsky	Manfred Symphony in B minor

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

Mozart	Ov. The Marriage of Figaro
Schubert arr. Webern	German Dances
Haydn	Toy Symphony
Prokofiev	Classical Symphony

Nielsen	Maskarade
Tchaikovsky	Francesca da Rimini
Mahler	Symphony No. 1 in D

Sibelius	Finlandia
Nielsen	Symphony No. 2
Stenhammar	Symphony No. 2

Elgar	Cockaigne
Malcolm Arnold	Symphony No. 5
Vaughan Williams	Symphony No. 2

Fauré	Suite, Masques et Bergamasques
Mozart	Clarinet Concerto in A K.622
Vaughan Williams	Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Haydn	Symphony No. 45 in F# minor (Farewell)

Mendelssohn	Ov. Ruy Blas
Brahms	Violin Concerto
Borodin	Symphony No. 2 in B minor

Brahms	Academic Festival Overture
Dohnányi	Variations on a Nursery Tune
Liszt	Symphonic Poem Mazeppa
Schumann	Symphony No. 4