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symphonies

Arenski Symphony no.1
Balakirev Symphony no.1
Beethoven Symphonies nos.1,3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
Bizet Symphony in C
Borodin Symphony no.2
Brahms Symphonies nos.1, 2, 3, & 4
Bruckner Symphony no. 4 (no. 3 studied as assistant)
Bruch Symphony no.3
Dvorak Symphonies nos.5, 6, 7, 8 & 9
Franck Symphony in D minor
Haydn Symphonies nos.6, 39, 70, 84, 88, 92, 94 & 104
Alan Hovhaness Symphony no. 34 (european premiere)
Mahler Symphonies nos.4 (Caroline Brooke Lester), 5
Mendelssohn Symphony nos.3 & 4
Mozart Symphonies nos.25, 29, 30, 31, 35, 36, 39, 40 & 41
Nielsen Symphonies no.1 & 3 'Espansiva'
Rachmaninov Symphony no.2
Saint-Saens Symphony no.2
Franz Schmidt Symphony no.4
Schubert Symphonies nos.2, 3, 5, 6, 8, & 9 (old numbering)
Schumann Symphony nos.1, 3, 4 (nos. 1 - 4 studied as assistant)
Sibelius Symphony nos.1, 2, 3
Shostakovich Symphonies nos.5 and 9
Tchaikovsky Symphonies nos.1, 2, 4, 5 & 6
Vaughan Williams Symphony no.2 'London'

opera (click to read more...)

Bizet Carmen
Handel Giulio Cesare
Mozart Così fan tutte
Mozart Concert Aria 'Alma Grande'
arias from Die Zauberflöte; Don Giovanni; Il seraglio
Tchaikovsky Letter Scene from Eugene Onegin (Caroline Lester), Eugene Onegin (complete)
Verdi Rigoletto
 
Mozart studied as assistant:
Concert Aria 'Bella mia fiamma, addio!'
'Come scoglio' and 'Per pietà' (Così fan tutte)
'Porgi, amor' and 'Dove sono' (Le nozze di Figaro)
'Mi tradì quell'alma ingrata' and 'Non mi dir' (Don Giovanni)
Idomeneo

concertos (read more...)

Albinoni Oboe Concerto op.9 no.2 (Julie Billingham)
Bach Brandenburg Concertos 3,4,5,and 6 (directed from keyboard)
Beethoven Piano Concerto no.1 (Martin Roscoe, played/conducted), Piano Concerto no.3 (played/conducted), Piano Concerto no. 4 (played/conducted), Piano Concerto no.5 (Martin Roscoe), Violin Concerto (Alexandra Wood, Sara Trickey)
Berlioz Harold in Italy
Brahms Violin Concerto (Nathaniel Vallois, Nathalie Shaw)
Bruch Violin Concerto no.1 (Alexandra Wood, Rhys Watkins)
Crusell Clarinet Concerto (Victoria Rex)
Dvorak Cello Concerto (Richard Jenkinson)
Egar Cello Concerto (Polly Ballard)
Foss Renaissance Concerto (Alex Pearson)
Fridolfsson: Forvantan (Corinne Frost)
Hoffmeister Viola Concerto (Matthew Kettle)
Honegger Pacific 231
Korngold Violin Concerto (Ruth Rodrigues)
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto (Madeleine Mitchell)
Mozart Horn Concerto K.495 (Kevin Boyd), Piano Concerto K.453 (Martin Roscoe, played/conducted), Piano Concerto K.466 (Ronan O'Hora, played/conducted), Piano Concerto K.467 (David Grundy, played/conducted), Piano Concerto K.488 (Martin Roscoe), Piano Concerto K.491 (Martin Roscoe, played / conducted, Sinfonia Concertante (Qian Wu, Matthew Kettle), Violin Concerto K.219 (Diedre Ward)
Nyman On the fiddle (Madeleine Mitchell)
Saint-Saens Cello Concerto no.2 (Helen Thompson)
Schumann Piano Concerto (Alfred Brendel) (assistant) (Penelope Roskell), Violin Concerto (Christian Tetzlaff) (assistant), Cello Concerto (Troels Svane), Konzertstück (Alison Bach, Hazel Whitefoot, Simon Hall, Nicky Daw)
Shostakovich Piano Concerto no.2 (Michelle Tong); Cello Concerto no.1 (Richard Jenkinson)
Stravinsky Concerto for piano and winds (Philip Mead)
Prokofiev Violin Concerto no.2 (Alexandra Wood)
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto nos.2 (Juliet Allen, Simon Callaghan) and 3 (Aydin Onac)
Ravel Piano Concerto in G (Nicholas Loh)
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (Judith Templeman); Rococo Variations (Corinne Frost)
Stephen Webster Piano Concerto in D flat (Stephen Webster)
Weber Andante e rondo ungarese for viola and orchestra (Matthew Kettle); Concertino (Kevin Boyd), Clarinet Concerto no.2 (Nikki Loveridge)

concertos directed from the keyboard (read more...)

Mozart K.271, 453, 466, 467, 491
Beethoven nos. 1, 3 & 4

other orchestral music (read more...)

Barber Adagio
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra, Dance Suite, Romanian Folk Dances
Beethoven Overtures 'Coriolan', 'Leonora no.3', 'Fidelio' , 'The Creatures of Prometheus', 'King Stephen', 'Egmont"; Grosse Fuge (arr. Weingartner), Prometheus incidental music (complete), Twelve Contrdanses
Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture
Bizet Carmen Suites
Bliss March 'Things to Come'
Borodin Polovtsian Dances
Brahms Tragic Overture, Variations on a theme of Haydn, Serenade no.1, Hungarian Dances, Academic Festival Overture
Britten The Ascent of F6
Butterworth A Shropshire Bad
Cherubini Medea Overture
Copland Appalachian Spring (original version for 13)
Mervyn Cooke The Gallery
Yi Cheng Chiang New Work
Peter Cowdrey: Solihull Ceileidh (first performance)
Debussy Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Dvorak In Nature's Realm, The Golden Spinning Wheel, Othello, Slavonic Dances, Scherzo capriccioso, Symphonic Variations
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance Marches nos.1 and 4, Enigma Variation, Wand of Youth Suite no.1
Fauré Pavane, Pelléas et Mélisande
Franck Le chasseur maudit
Glinka Overture Ruslan and Ludmilla, A Life for the Tsar
Alexander Goehr Sinfonia
Richard Green Io, Yellow Cherries (first performances)
Holst: The Planets
Katie Honey 'The fox jumps over the wall' (first performance)
Honegger Pacific 231
David Hume 'Overture to a forgotten Story' (first performance)
Ibert Divertissement
Khachaturian Masquerade
Paul von Klenau Paulo und Francesca
Liszt Les Preludes
Lutoslawski Concerto for Orchestra, Chain 1
Tom Littlewood Five Orchestral Miniatures (first performance)
Macdowell Suite no.2
Mahler Adagietto from Symphony no.5
Mendelssohn Hebrides, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, and Ruy Blas Overtures, Midsummer Night's Dream incidenttal music (complete)
Milhaud La Création du Monde
Silvina Milstein Labyrinth
(Premiere, Quincentenary Commission, Jesus College Cambridge)
Mozart Overtures 'Don Giovanni', 'The Impresario', 'Idomeneo', 'Magic Flute',
Mozart Adagio and Fugue (K456), Serenade 'Gran partita','Eine kleine Nachmusik'
Mussorgsky / Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition
Nielsen Helios Overture
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (excerpts), Peter and the Wolf (Sylvia Heal, MP)
Purcell Chacony (z730)
Rachmaninov Vocalise, Scherzo in D minor
Ravel Pavane, Daphnis et Chloé (suite no.2), Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé (Elizabeth Toye), Introduction and Allegro (Catherine White)
Rossini Overtures: Italian Girl in Algiers, Thieving Magpie, Cenerentola, William Tell
Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre
Schubert Die Zauberharfe Overture, Rosamunde (Bühnenmusik, "Death and the Maiden' (arranged Mahler)
Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Genoveva Overture
Smetana Sarka, Ma Vlast 1-4
Spiegl Radio 4 Theme
Shostakovich 'Festive' Overture, Chamber Symphony no.1 (arranged Barshai)
Sibelius Pelléas und Mélisande, Karelia, Finlandia
Strauss Metamorphosen; Four Last Songs (Zoë Milton-Brown)
Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Winds (Philip Mead), Octet, Rite of Spring, Dumbarton Oaks, Four Norwegian Moods
Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini, 'Nutcracker' Suite, 'Romeo and Juliet', Serenade for Strings, 'Swan Lake', Capriccio Italien
Thomas Master David's Prelude (first performance)
Vaughan Willimas Tallis Fantasia
Verdi Overture 'La forza del destino'
Veit Concert Overture (first U.K. performance)
Wagner 'Rienzi', 'Die Meistersinger', 'Tannhäuser', Ride of the Walkure
Walton 'Spitfire' Prelude
Weber Overtures 'Der Freischutz', 'Oberon'
Webern Passacaglia op.1, Five Pieces op.10

oratorio (read more...)

Bach B minor Mass (rehearsals)
Brahms German Requiem (rehearsals)
Fauré Requiem (rehearsals)
Handel Saul (Bryn Terfel, Ian Bostridge, Lisa Milne, Joan Rodgers, Toby Spence, Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Sir Charles Mackerras) (assistant)
Mozart Exsultate Jubilate (Margaret Cooper)