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Concert 111: Saturday 25 October 2008 at 19:30
- "A Night at the Movies"
Cornerstone, Didcot

Gone with the Wind, 1939
The Sea Hawk, 1940
Star Wars, 1977
The Big Country, 1958
St Giles Orchestra is giving the inaugural orchestral concert in Cornerstone, Didcot's new arts centre, in association with Cranford Choral Society

Cornerstone, Didcot

Bushell A Fanfare for Didcot, op 58 (first performance)
Arranged Elgar National Anthem, with Cranford Choral Society
Borodin Polovtsian Dances [ Kismet, 1955] with Cranford Choral Society, conducted by Malcolm Harding 140
Shostakovich Festive Overture Listen to clips or buy CDs
Moross The Big Country [ 1958] Listen to clips or buy CDs
Korngold The Sea Hawk [ 1940] Listen to clips or buy CDs
John Williams Star Wars [ 1977] 108
Coates The Dam Busters [ 1954]
Dvorak Symphony 9 "From the New World" [ Paradise Road, 1997] 19
Tickets £9, £7 (concessions), family ticket £25 (at least one child in a party of four). Book your tickets now

Concert 112: Saturday 6 December 2008 at 19:30
Dorchester Abbey

Malcolm Harding, conductor
In association with Cranford Choral Society, conducted by Malcolm Harding.
Handel Messiah 23
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Concert 113: Saturday 17 January 2009 at 19:30
St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford

Helena Wood, violin
Katharine Wood, cello
Bax Tintagel 191 Listen to clips or buy CDs
Brahms Double Concerto (Helena Wood, violin; Katharine Wood, cello)
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet 71

Concert 114: Saturday 25 April 2009 at 19:30
St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford

Esmeralda Galea Camilleri, harp
Bernstein Candide Overture Listen to clips or buy CDs
Dvorak In Nature's Realm
Glière Harp Concerto (Esmeralda Galea Camilleri)
Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition 102

Concert 115: Saturday 27 June 2009 at 19:30
St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford

Edmund Hartzell, double bass
Copland Appalachian Spring 192
Bottesini Double Bass Concerto no 2 in A minor (Edmund Hartzell)
Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty ballet music 119 Listen to clips or buy CDs

Saturday 4 July 2009

Annual party for members Friends, Patrons, Benefactors and commercial sponsors

Concert 116: October 2009
Cornerstone, Didcot

Cornerstone, Didcot
Dvorak Carnival Overture Listen to clips or buy CDs
Chadwick Noel from Four Symphonic Sketches
Concerto To be confirmed
Tchaikovsky Symphony no 4 120

Concert 117: Saturday 16 January 2010 at 19:30
St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford

Wagner Tannhauser: Overture & Venusberg Music 89
Wagner Tristan & Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod (Anne Andrew) 122
Brahms Piano Concerto no 2 in Bb (Bethe Levvy) 132 Listen to clips or buy CDs

Concert 118: Saturday 25 April 2010
St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford

Caroline Duffner, violin
Suk Fantastic Scherzo Listen to clips or buy CDs
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (Caroline Duffner) 99
Elgar The Music Makers, with Bicester Choral and Operatic Society

Concert 119: June 2010
- "The Nightingale Sings"
St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford

Yukiko Ishida, soprano
Bax The Garden of Fand Listen to clips or buy CDs
Alabiev Salaviei (The Nightingale) (Yukiko Ishida) Listen to clips or buy CDs
Saint Saens Le Rossignol et la Rose (The Nightingale and the Rose) (Yukiko Ishida) Listen to clips or buy CDs
Granados La Maja y el Ruisenor (The Maiden and the Nightingale) (Yukiko Ishida)
Bushell The Nightingale (first performance) (Yukiko Ishida)
Strauss, J Voices of Spring (Yukiko Ishida)
Smetana Ma Vlast 29

Concert 120: October 2010
Cornerstone, Didcot

Cornerstone, Didcot
Jackie Bushell, clarinet
Rossini William Tell Overture Listen to clips or buy CDs
Crusell Clarinet Concerto no 2 (Jackie Bushell)
Weber, orch. Berlioz Invitation to the Dance Listen to clips or buy CDs
Schubert Symphony no 8 "Unfinished" 241

Concert 121: Saturday 15 January 2011 at 19:30
St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford

Shelley Organ, bassoon
Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music
Elgar Romance for Bassoon (Shelly Organ)
Hummel Bassoon Concerto (Shelly Organ) Listen to clips or buy CDs
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique 152

Concert 122: April 2011
- "Music Through the Seasons"
St Andrew's Church, Linton Road, Oxford

Music through the seasons
Grieg Overture: In Autumn Listen to clips or buy CDs
Holst A Winter Idyll
Delius On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Bridge Summer Listen to clips or buy CDs
Brahms Symphony no 2 271



April 2013
Oxford Town Hall

Verdi Requiem 74