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Saturday 24 November 2012

Shirley Methodist Church
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Caroline Lester (soprano)

Verdi - Triumphal March from Aida
Wagner - The Wesendonck Lieder
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 4

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Saturday 30 June 2012

Shirley Methodist Church
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Amy Littlewood (violin)

Thomas - King Fergus and the Magic Shoes
Barber - Violin Concerto
Nielsen - Symphony No 2 'The Four Temperaments'

programme

Saturday 24 March 2012

Rising Stars 2012
Shirley Methodist Church
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Alvin Chu (clarinet)
Michael Buckland (piano)
Bethan Irving (clarinet)
Isobel Williams (saxophone)
Prishita Maheshwari (violin)

Schnelzer - A freak in Burbank

Weber - Clarinet Concerto
Beethoven - Piano Concerto no.1
Mozart - Clarinet Concerto K622
Harvey - Saxophone Concerto
Mozart - Violin Concerto K216

Mendelssohn - Symphony No 4 (Italian)

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Saturday 12 November 2011

Bushell Hall, Solihull School
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Simon Callaghan (piano)

Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No 3
Mahler: Symphony no. 1

programme

Sunday 28 August 2011

Knowle Park, Solihull
Last Afternoon of the Proms
Martin Leigh (conductor)

Weber - Der Freischütz Overture
Elgar - Nimrod
Chabrier - España
Chabrier - Marche Joyeuse
Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite
Barry - Out of Africa theme
Williams - Raiders of the Lost Ark March
Beethoven – Symphony No 5 Finale
Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March no.4
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Greensleeves
Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March no.1
Parry - Jerusalem
Wood - Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Arne arr. Thomas - Rule Britannia

Saturday 2 July 2011

Shirley Methodist Church
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Margaret Cooper (soprano)

Chabrier - Joyeuse Marche
Chabrier - España
De Falla - Seven Spanish Songs
Sibelius - Symphony No 2

Saturday 26 March 2011

Shirley Methodist Church
Martin Leigh (conductor)

Rising Stars 2011

Weber - Der Freischütz Overture
Mozart - Piano Concerto No 23 Matthew Hall
David - Concertino for Trombone Rhiannon Symonds
Mozart - Flute Concerto No 1 Alicia Coulthurst
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 2 Adelaide Yue
Beethoven - Symphony No 5

Saturday 27 November 2010

Shirley Methodist Church
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Peter Moore (trombone)

Rossini - William Tell Overture
Grøndahl - Trombone Concerto
Brahms - Symphony no.3

Recorded extracts from the concert above.

Saturday 3 July 2010

Shirley Methodist Church
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Samantha Ward (piano)

Glinka - Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture
Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor op.16
Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 5

Saturday 26 March 2010

Shirley Methodist Church
Martin Leigh (conductor)

Rising Stars 2010

Franck - Les Éolides
Haydn - Cello Concerto Benjamin Jones
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 3 Kevin Lee
Vivaldi - A Minor Cello Concerto Eleanor Mackereth
Neruda - Trumpet Concerto Lydia Rothwell
Mendelssohn - Symphony no.3 'Scottish'

Saturday 28 November 2009

Shirley Methodist Church
Martin Leigh (conductor)

Humperdinck: Prelude from Hänsel and Gretel
Grieg: Peer Gynt selections from Suites nos.1 and 2
Glazunov Symphony no.5

Saturday 4 July 2009

Shirley Methodist Church
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Alexandra Wood (violin)

Mendelssoun - Overture Ruy Blas
Bruch - Violin Concerto
Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel) - Pictures at an Exhibition

Saturday 28 March 2009

Shirley Methodist Church
Martin Leigh (conductor)

Beethoven - Creatures of Prometheus Overture and Ballet
Schumann - Symphony No 3 'Rhenish'

Saturday 28 November 2008

Shirley Methodist Church
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Zoe Milton-Brown (soprano)

Honegger - Pacific 231
Strauss - Four Last Songs
Vaughan-Williams - A London Symphony

Saturday 13 September 2008

Wroxall Abbey
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Maggie Farmer

Suppé - Light Cavalry Overture
Schönberg - Selection from Les Miserables
Brahms - Hungarian Dances 5 and 6
Lloyd-Webber -Memory
Goodwin - 633 Squadron
Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
Wood - Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Parry - Jerusalem

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Saturday 5 July 2008

Bushell Hall, Solihull School
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Juliet Allen (piano)

Sibelius - Finlandia
Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No 2
Bliss - March
Barber - Adagio
Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries
Goodwin - 633 Squadron
Barry - Out of Africa theme
Williams - Indiana Jones march
Williams - Star Wars Suite

Sunday 20 April 2008

Arden School, Knowle
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Rising Stars 2008

Eric Brookes (trumpet)
Grace Burns (violin and double bass)
Debbie Rothwell (violin - Bruch)

Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto
Haydn - Trumpet Concerto
Capuzzi - Double Bass Concerto
Bruch - Violin Concerto No 1

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Saturday 1 March 2008

Shirley Methodist Church
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Corinne Frost (violoncello

Stravinsky - Four Norwegian Moods
Tchaikovsky - Rococo Variations
Fridolfsson - Förväntan (Expectation)
Dvorak - Symphony No 8

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Sunday 16 December 2007

John Lewis, Solihull
Martin Leigh (conductor)

Sibelius - Pelléas et Melisande (prelude)
Cowdrey - Solihull Ceilidh
Rossini - Overture Thieving Magpie
Faure- Pellás et Mélisande
(La fileuse and Sicilienne)
Elgar - Bavarian Dances
Prokofiev: Troïka (from Lieutenant Kijé Suite)
Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake
(Scene and Danse des cygnes)J Strauss - Kaiser-Waltz

Saturday 24 November 2007

St Ninian's Church
Martin Leigh (conductor)

Faure - Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande
Brahms - Serenade No 1
Sibelius - Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande
Beethoven - Symphony No 8

Saturday 30 June 2007

Shirley Methodist Church
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Richard Jenkinson (cello)

Veit - Overture: Night to Dawn
Shostakovich - Cello Concerto No 1
Dvorak - Symphony No 6

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Saturday 24 March 2007

Bushell Hall, Solihull School
Martin Leigh (conductor)

Nielsen - Helios Overture
Haydn - Symphony No 6
Holst - The Planets

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Sunday 25 February 2007

Arden School, Knowle
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Rising Stars 2007

James Maloney (piano)
Joss Brookes (cello)
Hannah Roper (violin)

Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
Elgar - Cello Concerto
Mozart - Violin Concerto No 5

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Sunday 10 December 2006

John Lewis, Solihull
Martin Leigh (conductor)

Cowdrey - Solihull Ceilidh
Smetana - Vltava from Ma Vlast
Spiegl - UK Theme
Tchaikovsky - Waltz, Eugene Onegin
Berlioz - L'enfance du Christ
Dvorak - Slavonic Dance no.1
Strauss J (II) - Tritsch-tratsch Polka

Saturday 25 November 2006

St Ninan's Church, Solihull
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Margaret Cooper (soprano)

Liszt - Les Preludes
Mozart - Exsultate Jubilate
Smetana - Ma Vlast

Saturday 1 July 2006

United Reformed Church, Solihull
Martin Leigh (conductor)

Mozart - Symphony No 32
Dvorak - Symphonic Variations
Sibelius - Symphony No 1

Saturday 1 April 2006

Shirley Methodist Church
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Madeleine Mitchell (violin)

Cowdrey - Solihull Ceilidh
Nyman - On The Fiddle
Borodin - Symphony No 2

Sunday 26 February 2006

Arden School, Knowle
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Rising Stars 2006

Daniel Todd (cello)
Philippa Gibb (flute)
Ben Westlake (clarinet)
Emma Geddes (french horn)

Elgar - Cello Concerto
Mozart - Andante for flute
Spohr - Clarinet Concerto No 2
Mozart - Horn Concerto No 3

Saturday 26 November 2005

Arden School, Knowle
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Madeleine Mitchell (violin)

Thomas - Master David's Prelude
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto
Nielsen - Symphony No 1

Tuesday 20 September 2005

Solihull Arts Centre
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Kevin Boyd (horn)

Beethoven - Overture Coriolan
Weber - Concertino for Horn
Dvorak - Symphony #9 'New World'

Saturday 16 July 2005

Dickens Heath Community Church
Same programme as 2 July (below)

Saturday 2 July 2005

Shirley Methodist Church

Martin Leigh (conductor)

Mendelssohn - incidental music from
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tchaikovsky - Symphony # 1

with Daniel Hawthorne and Lucy Holtom

Thursday 23 June 2005

Shirley Golf Club
Same programme as 2 July (above)

Sunday 24 April 2005

Arden School, Knowle
Martin Leigh (conductor)

Rising Stars 2005

Adam Ruffell (cello)
David Sheard (piano)
Katie Evans (soprano)
Daniel Chadwick (trombone)
Caroline Pether (violin)

Boccherini - Cello Concerto
Schumann - Piano Concerto
Gershwin - Summertime
David - Trombone Concerto
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto

Saturday 12 March 2005

Our Lady of the Wayside, Shirley
Martin Leigh (conductor)
Victoria Rex (clarinet)

Soprano : Elizabeth Toye
Mezzo : Caroline Amnéus
Tenor : Gareth John
Bass : Armin Zanner

The Hampton Singers

Crusell - Clarinet Concerto
Beethoven - Symphony # 9