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Previous Concerts

9 April 2022

St Barnabas Church, Stroud Road, Gloucester

SibeliusFinlandia
CanteloubeSongs of the Auvergne
Soprano: Ellie Neate
SibeliusSymphony No 3

19 December 2021
Christmas Cracker Concert

Cheltenham Town Hall

Joint concert with Mandy Godding’s Theatre Arts dancers, Cheltenham Youth Choir conducted by Rachel Bowen, MidLife ChoirSis and Gloucestershire Boys’ Choir, conducted by Ben Sawyer.

ProkofievRomeo and Juliet Suite
DelibesCoppelia Ballet Suite
Christopher BoodleChristmas Sleigh Ride
Peter Maxwell DaviesAn Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise
Bagpipes: David Boggon
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21 November 2021

Cheltenham Town Hall

Darcy Beck: Gloucestershire Young Musician 2020

Emmanuel SéjournéConcerto for Marimba and Strings
Marimba: Darcy Beck
Richard WagnerSiegfried Idyll
BeethovenSymphony No 7 in A

17 July 2021

St Barnabas Church, Stroud Road, Gloucester

MozartOverture to Don Giovanni
RodrigoConcierto de Aranjuez
Guitar: Chris Roberts
ProkofievSymphony No 1

22 December 2019

Cheltenham Town Hall

Joint concert with Mandy Godding’s Theatre Arts dancers, Cheltenham Youth Choir conducted by Rachel Bowen, MidLife ChoirSis and Gloucestershire Boys’ Choir, conducted by Ben Sawyer.

Rimsky-KorsakovChristmas Eve Suite
GlazunovThe Seasons (Autumn and Winter)
AdolpheO Holy Night
Various composersChristmas carols
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17 November 2019

Pittville Pump Rooms, Cheltenham

Bill Ko Tsz Hin: Gloucestershire Young Musician 2019

William WaltonViola Concerto
Viola: Bill Ko Tsz Hin
Antonin DvořákThe Noon Witch
Jean SibeliusSymphony No 1

22 June 2019

St Catharine’s Church, London Road, Gloucester

HaydnCello Concerto in C Major
Cello: Rebecca McNaught
MozartOverture to Marriage of Figaro
MendelssohnSymphony No 4 ‘Italian’

23 March 2019

St Barnabas Church, Stroud Road, Gloucester

Celebration of Suzanne Blewett’s 40 years as the orchestra’s principal woodwind player

John RutterSuite Antique
Flute: Suzanne Blewett
BorodinOverture to Prince Igor
BrahmsSymphony No 1

16 December 2018
Christmas Cracker Concert

Cheltenham Town Hall

Joint concert with Mandy Godding’s Theatre Arts dancers, Cheltenham Youth Choir conducted by Rachel Bowen, MidLife ChoirSis and Gloucestershire Boys’ Choir, conducted by Ben Sawyer.

TchaikovskySleeping Beauty Suite
Traditional12 days of Christmas
Leroy AndersonSleigh Ride

Carols and festive music with Cheltenham Youth Choir and MidLife ChoirSis

18 November 2018

Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham

Lydia Kenny: Gloucestershire Young Musician 2018

SchulhoffHot Sonate
Saxophone: Lydia Kenny
BeethovenEgmont Overture
MussorgskyPictures at an Exhibition

11 October 2018

Gloucester Cathedral

Joint concert with Gloucestershire Male Voice Choir and the D-Day Darlings.
Speakers included Kate Adie; compered by Steve Knibbs.

Vaughan WilliamsLark Ascending
Violin: Shulah Oliver
Vaughan WilliamsFantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

30 June 2018

Tewkesbury Abbey

Joint concert with The Oriel Singers, St Cecilia Singers and Cheltenham Youth Choir

Tenor: James Gilchrist

Jonathan DoveTo an Unknown Soldier
Vaughan WilliamsFantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Alissa FirsovaStabat Mater
Hubert Parry‘I Know My Soul Hath Power’ and
‘At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners’
from ‘Songs of Farewell’
Jonathan DoveFriday Afternoons

13 May 2018

Stroud Subscription Rooms

Dahl/PattersonLittle Red Riding Hood (‘The Big Bad Wolf’)
Narrator: Lydia Kenny

See a video on the page of Children’s concerts.

24 March 2018

St Barnabas Church, Gloucester

DeliusOn Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
CoplandAppalachian Spring
BeethovenSymphony No 6

3 December 2017
Christmas Cracker Concert

Cheltenham Town Hall

Joint concert with Mandy Godding’s Theatre Arts dancers, Cheltenham Youth Choir, MidLife ChoirSis and Gloucestershire Academy of Music Cello Ensemble

TchaikovskySwan Lake
ProkofievLieutenant Kije Suite
Narrator: Lydia Kenny
Philip LaneWassail Dances

Carols and festive music with Cheltenham Youth Choir and MidLife ChoirSis and Gloucestershire Academy of Music Cello Ensemble

12 November 2017

Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham

Hannah Brooks-Hughes: Gloucestershire Young Musician 2017

ShostakovichFestival Overture
BruchViolin Concerto in G Minor
Violin: Hannah Brookes-Hughes
ShostakovichSymphony No 12 in the Year 1917

22 July 2017

Somme 100 Film and music by Laura Rossi

15 July 2017

ElgarPomp and Circumstance March No 1 and
Land of Hope and Glory
William Walton Crown Imperial
WoodFantasia on British Sea-Songs
ArneRule Britannia
ParryJerusalem and
God Save the Queen

25 June 2017

Stroud Subscription Rooms

John WilliamsHarry Potter
Dahl/PattersonThree Little Pigs
Narrator: Lydia Kenny
NielsenFestival March from Aladdin suite
BizetCarmen Suite Toreadors March

See a video on the page of Children’s concerts.

18 March 2017

BrucknerSymphony No 4
RachmaninovIsle of the Dead
D’Angelo The Angel of the Flowing Light

18 December 2016

Cheltenham Town Hall

Choral Society and MidLife ChoirSis
The Snowman

13 November 2016

Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham

Adam Heron: Gloucestershire Young Musician 2016

MozartPiano Concerto K.467 in C major (‘Elvira Madigan’)
Piano: Adam Heron
BeethovenEroica
MendelssohnHebrides Overture

26 July 2016

Joint concert with the Gloucestershire Youth Orchestra

ElgarSerenade for Strings
ButterworthOn the Banks of the Green Willow

21 May 2016

Gloucester Guildhall

Dankworth Tom Sawyer’s Saturday
Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals
Mussorgsky‘Gopak’ from the opera ‘The Fair at Sorochinsk’

Music from the films ‘Jurassic Park’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’

See a video on the page of Children’s concerts.

6 February 2016

Rimsky-KorsakovScheherazade
HolstBeni Mora
Vaughan WilliamsFantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

14 November 2015

Rebecca McNaught: Gloucestershire Young Musician 2015

WagnerFuneral music from Gotterdammerung
ElgarCello Concerto
Cello: Rebecca McNaught
MahlerSymphony No 1

17 May 2015

ProkofievPeter and the Wolf
Narrator: Richard Atkins
Edvard Grieg‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ from ‘Peer Gynt’
BeethovenSymphony No 5, 1st movement
MussorgskyNight on the Bare Mountain
Gustav Holst‘Mars’ from ‘The Planet Suite’

31 January 2015

Joint concert with Gloucestershire Youth Orchestra and Cheltenham Bach Choir

Vaughan WilliamsThe Wasps
Vic CarnallCheltone Rhapsody World Premiere
Colin DecioPiano Concerto World Premiere
Piano: Colin Decio
Gustav HolstThe Planets

15 November 2014

GlazunovThe Seasons (ballet music)
BorodinThe Steppes of Central Asia
TchaikovskySymphony No 5

14 June 2014

Jean SibeliusSymphony No 5
Gustav HolstSomerset Rhapsody
Charles IvesSymphony No 3 

15 March 2014

SibeliusOverture ‘Finlandia’
DvořákSymphony No 9 ‘from the New World’
SmetanaMa Vlast

12 March 2014

Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra will be supporting Rendcomb College with a performance of the Faure requiem and more…

16 November 2013

Tony Hewitt-JonesDivertimento for Orchestra
MassenetUnder the Lime Trees 
ProkofievViolin Concerto no 2 in G minor
Violin: Bartosz Woroch
NielsenOverture ‘Maskarade’
ElgarEnigma Variations

21 April 2012

Pate’s School, Cheltenham

GriegLyric Suite
SchubertSymphony No. 8 in B minor ‘Unfinished’
Nicholas SpencerDays of Wild Roses (première),
RachmaninovRhapsody on a theme of Paganini
Piano: Samantha Ward

5 February 2012

Stroud Subscription Rooms

StravinskyPulcinella – ballet suite
BruchViolin Concerto in G minor
Violin: Elin White
BrahmsHungarian Dance No 1
BeethovenSymphony No 1 in C

25 June 2011

Wind Serendade at Wycliffe College Chapel

Members of the GSO wind section  played a light and varied programme.

4 June 2011

Gloucester Cathedral

Joint concert with Gloucester Choral Society

DvořákTe Deum
Elgar‘Nimrod’, Var. IX from ‘Enigma Variations’
ElgarGive unto the Lord
ElgarPomp & Circumstance No 4
Vaughan WilliamsO Clap your Hands
Saint-SaënsOrgan Symphony, 2nd movement
ParryJerusalem

30 April 2011

Parish Church, Cirencester

Weber 
TchaikovskyVariations on a Rococo Theme
Cello: Philip Higham
GlinkaKamarinskaya
Brahms 

13 February 2011

Stroud Subscription Rooms

DelibesLe Roi s’amuse
MozartSinfonia Concertante
Violins: Claire Piper and David Lloyd
ElgarSospiri
PoulencSinfonietta

6 November 2010

Pate’s School, Cheltenham

ShostakovichFestival Overture
ScriabinPiano Concerto
Piano: Simon Buck
TchaikovskySymphony No 4

20 June 2009

Deep in the Clearwell Caves, Forest of Dean

Joint concert with Forest of Dean children’s Choir

DvořákIn Nature’s Realm
Hayley SavageLuna Nueva
ElgarSelection from ‘Wand of Youth’
DukasThe Sorcerer’s Apprentice
GSO 2009 Caves concert shorter
GSO 2009 Caves concert

9 May 2009

Stroud Subscription Rooms

MozartOverture, ‘The Marriage of Figaro’
StravinskySuites Nos 1 and 2
StraussHorn Concerto No 1 in E flat
Horn: Emma Whitney
YoshimatsuAnd Birds are Still (strings)
BeethovenSymphony No 8 in F

7 March 2009

Cheltenham Town Hall

Soloists: Soprano, Ruth Kerr and Tenor, Paul Badley

Giacomo PucciniO Mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi
Antonín DvořákSong to the Moon from Russalka
Georges BizetFlower Song from Carmen
Giacomo PucciniUn bel di from Madame Butterfly
Giacomo PucciniNessun Dorma from Turandot
Giuseppe VerdiLa Donna e mobile from Rigoletto
Leonard BernsteinBalcony Scene from West Side Story
Georges BizetTon Coeur n’as pas compris from Pearl Fishers
Giacomo PucciniClosing scene from Act 1 from La Boheme

18 October 2008

Tewkesbury Abbey

Joint concert with the Oriel Singers

Vaughan WilliamsMass in G minor (unaccompanied choir)
Vaughan WilliamsSerenade to Music (Choir + orchestra)
Vaughan WilliamsFantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Vaughan WilliamsSymphony No 3 ‘A Pastoral Symphony’

7 June 2008

Gloucester Cathedral

AdamsA Short Ride in a Fast Machine
StraussFour Last Songs
Soloist: Lesley Jane Rogers
DecioThe Gloucester Symphony World premiere

8 March 2008

Stroud Subscription Rooms

Gryspeerdt‘Goodbye To All That’
GershwinRhapsody in Blue
Piano: Russell Harrold
ArnoldSerenade for Orchestra
MozartSymphony No 38 in D, ‘Prague’

26 January 2008

Cheltenham Ladies’ College

ElgarConcert Overture, Cockaigne
GlazunovViolin Concerto in A minor
Violin: Emil Huckle-Kleve
WaltonSymphony No 1 in B flat minor

4 August 2007

Three Choirs Festival: Cheltenham Ladies’ College

Elgar/PaynePomp and Circumstance No 6
DeliusDance Rhapsody No 2
HowellsFantasia for Cello and Orchestra
Cello: Emma Denton
GurneyWar Elegy
BridgeThe Sea

20 May 2007

Stroud Subscription Rooms

RossiniOverture, The Thieving Magpie
DebussyPetite Suite
RavelPiano Concerto in G
Piano: Malcolm Peckham
BeethovenSymphony No 4 in B flat

24 March 2007

Tewkesbury Abbey

KodályPeacock Variations
MendelssohnViolin Concerto
Violin: Kenyi Wang
BrahmsSymphony No 3

11 February 2007

Cheltenham Town Hall

An Afternoon of Film Music including musical highlights from Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, Star Wars, ET, Schindler’s List, Out of Africa, West Side Story and James Bond.

11 November 2006

All Saints Church, Pittville, Cheltenham

HolstOriental Suite, Beni Mora
MozartClarinet Concerto
Clarinet: Katy Wenham
FinziFarewell to Arms
Soloist: Iain MacLeod-Jones
HaydnSymphony No 99 in E flat

23 April 2006

Stroud Subscription Rooms

MendelssohnOverture, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
BrittenSerenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
Tenor: James Atherton
DeliusIntermezzo from Fennimore and Gerda
JacobOld Wine in New Bottles
HaydnSymphony No 104 ‘London’

5 March 2006

Cheltenham Town Hall

WagnerPrelude, Tristan and Isolde
CanteloubeSongs of the Auvergne
Soprano: Rachel Skinner
SibeliusSwan of Tuonela
TchaikovskyNutcracker Suite

 

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