1996 Concert Programmes
Saturday 30th November
Schubert: Overture ‘Rosamunde’
Rimsky Korsakov: Clarinet Concerto in E Flat
Soloist: Eric Ward
Mozart: Serenade in G minor ‘Eine Kleine Nachtmusik’
Dvořák: Slavonic Dance Op. 46 No. 4
Haydn: Symphony No. 93 in D major
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
1997 Concert Programmes
Saturday 22nd March
(Concert in Memory of David Bentley 8/9/30 – 1/4/93)
Mozart: Overture ‘Don Giovanni’
Gounod: Petite Symphonie
Elgar: Chanson de Matin
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D major
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 5th July
Rossini: Overture ‘La Gazza Ladra’
Beethoven: Romance No. 2 in F major Op. 50
Soloist: Jilah Bakhshayesh (violin)
Vaughan Williams: English Folk Songs Suite
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 29th November
Beethoven: Overture ‘Egmont’
Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor
Soloist: Angela Ashpool
Haydn: Symphony No. 101 in D ‘The Clock’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
1998 Concert Programmes
Saturday 11th July
J. Strauss Jr: Künstler Leben Waltzes
Donizetti: Pot Pourri for four horns
Soloists: Godfrey Stafford, Gary Mason, Paul Horton, Fiona Hughes
Schubert: Rosamunde Entr’acte No. 3
Sibelius: Karelia Suite
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 ‘Italian’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 28th November
Richard Strauss: Serenade for Wind Instruments
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat K364
Soloists: Brian Batey (violin), Peter Adamson (viola)
Beethoven: Symphony No.7 Op.92
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
1999 Concert Programmes
Saturday 13th March
Elgar: Bavarian Dances
Cimarosa: Oboe Concerto in C
Soloist: Tom Sharpe
Bizet: Carmen Suie No. 1
Handel: Water Music Suite
Lehar: Gold & Silver Waltz
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Suite
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 26th June
Weber: Overture ‘Der Freischütz’
Bruch: Kol Nidrei
Soloist: Christopher Rakovsky (cello)
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 27th November
(Concert in memory of Hubert Thomas 1914 – 1998)
Rossini: Overture ‘The Barber of Seville’
Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 1 in G K313
Soloist: Jane Coombe
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major Op. 69 ‘Pastoral’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
2000 Concert Programmes
Saturday 25th March
Khachaturian: Waltz from ‘Masquerade’
Elgar: Wand of Youth Suite No. 1
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 24 June
Sibelius: Finlandia
Dittersdorf: Harp Concerto in A
Soloist: Maxine Molin
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 2
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 25th November
Mendelssohn: Overture ‘Fingal’s Cave’
Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 3 in E Flat K447
Soloist: Godfrey Stafford
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 Op. 21
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
2001 Concert Programmes
Saturday 24th March
Rossini: Overture ‘The Thieving Magpie’
Vivaldi: Violin Concerto Op. 8 No. 4 ‘Winter’
Soloist: Michael Vernon
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 Op. 64
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 30th June
Beethoven: Overture ‘Coriolan’
Fauré: Pavane
Dvořák: Czech Suite
Schubert: Symphony No.3
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 24th November
Mozart: Overture ‘Don Giovanni’
Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 in Eb K495
Soloist: Patrick Gundry-White
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 Op. 55 ‘Eroica’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
2002 Concert Programmes
Saturday 20 April
Suppé: Overture ‘Light Cavalry’
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Soloist: Cornelia Pratt-Hartmann
Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos. 5, 6 & 1
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor Op. 56 ‘Scottish’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 29 June
Gluck: Iphigénia in Aulis
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C Minor ‘Tragic’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 30th November
Mozart: Overture ‘The Magic Flute’
Salieri: Concerto for Flute and Oboe
Soloists: Jane Coombe (Flute) & Tom Sharpe (Oboe)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor Op. 67
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
2003 Concert Programmes
Saturday 22nd March
Verdi: Overture ‘The Force of Destiny’
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves
Elgar: Serenade for Strings in E Minor
Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D Minor Op. 70
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 28th June
Beethoven: Overture ‘Prometheus’
Sibelius: Valse Triste
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E Flat
Soloist:Paul Dawes
Schubert: Symphony No. 6 in C
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
November
Rossini: Overture ‘Italian Girl in Algiers’
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor Op. 26
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Op. 68 ‘Pastoral’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh and Gloria Bakhshayesh
2004 Concert Programmes
Saturday 20th March
Mendelssohn: Overture ‘Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage’
Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 1 in G K313
Soloist: Jane Coombe
Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D ‘London’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 26th June
Beethoven: Overture ‘Egmont’
Offenbach: Tales of Hoffmann
J.S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor
Soloists: Michael Vernon & Wendy Swann
Bizet: Symphony in C
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 27th November
Smetana: Overture ‘The Bartered Bride’
Haydn: Concerto in D Major
Soloist: Richard Evans
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
2005 Concert Programmes
Saturday 9th April
Beethoven: Overture ‘Fidelio’
Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in B Flat K191
Soloist: Kevin O’Sullivan
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Op. 73
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 2nd July
Mendelssohn: Overture ‘Nocturne from A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor K550
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F Op 73
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 26th November
Humperdinck: Overture ‘Hansel and Gretel’
Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F Minor
Soloist: Lynn Threadgold
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C ‘Great’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
2006 Concert Programmes
Saturday 25th March
Rossini: Overture ‘La Cenerentola’
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B Flat Op. 60
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 1st July
Nicolai: Overture ‘Merry Wives of Windsor’
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 ‘Unfinished’
Johann Strauss II: Overture ‘Die Fledermaus’
Tchaikovsky: Suite ‘Nutcracker’
Mascagni: Selection from ‘Cavaliera Rusticana’
Johan Strauss: March ‘Radetzky’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 25th November
Mozart 250th Anniversary Concert
Wind Serenade in C Minor K338
Symphony No. 31 in D K297 ‘Paris’
Rondo for Horn and Orchestra
Soloist:Christopher Leyland
Symphony No. 41 in C K551 ‘Jupiter’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
2007 Concert Programmes
Saturday 9th April
Borodin: On the Steppes of Central Asia
Elgar: Sea Pictures
Soloist: Elizabeth Ward (Mezzo-Soprano)
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 30th June
Rossini: Overture ‘Il Signor Bruschino’
Fauré: Sicilienne
Mozart: Symphony No. 32
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A Minor ‘Italian’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
November 24th
Mendelssohn: Overture ‘The Hebrides’
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Op. 61
Soloist: Michael Vernon
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Op. 92
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
2008 Concert Programmes
Saturday 12th April
Weber: Overture ‘Der Freischütz’
Sibelius: Karelia Suite
Sibelius: Finlandia
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 5th July
Johann Strauss II: Polka ‘In Krapfenwald’
Johann Strauss II: Waltz ‘Roses from the South’
Joseph Strauss: Polka ‘Feuerfest’
Bizet: L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2
Haydn: Symphony No. 100 ‘Military’
Dvořák: Slavonic Dance Op. 46 No. 4
Léhar: ‘The Merry Widow’ Selection
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 22nd November
Mozart Overture: ‘Don Giovanni’
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A K219
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in Op. 36
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
2009 Concert Programmes
Saturday 4th April
Rossini: Overture ‘The Thieving Magpie’
Richard Strauss: Wind Serenade Op. 7
Elgar: Three Bavarian Dances
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor Op. 74 ‘Pathetique’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 4th July
Gluck: Overture ‘Iphigénia in Aulis’
Haydn: Symphony No 93 in D
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 ‘Scottish’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 28th November
Rossini: Overture ‘The Barber of Seville’
Mozart: Four Arias from ‘The Marriage of Figaro’
Soloist: Angela Rowley (Soprano)
Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D Minor
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
2010 Concert Programmes
Saturday 20th March
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’
Saint Saëns: Danse Macabre
Soloist: Emma Glen (Violin)
Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 1
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C ‘Great’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 3rd July
Handel: Water Music Suite
J.S. Bach: Violin Concerto in E
Soloist: Michael Vernon
Elgar: Chanson de Matin
Elgar: Chanson de Nuit
Mozart: Symphony No. 35 ‘Haffner’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 24th November
Schubert: Overture ‘The Magic Harp’
Gounod: Petite Symphonie for Wind Instruments
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor Op. 68
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
2011 Concert Programmes
100th Anniversary Season
Saturday 9th April
Rossini: Overture: ‘The Italian Girl in Algiers’
Weber: Bassoon Concerto in F
Soloist: Sam Brough
Sibelius: Symphony No. 3
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 2nd July
Smetana: Suite: The Bartered Bride
Fauré: Elegy Op.24 for Cello and Orchestra
Soloist: Alison Williams
Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite
Haydn: Symphony No.104 ‘London’
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien Op.45
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 26th November
100th Anniversary Concert
Dvořák: Slavonic Dance Op.46 No.8
Mascagni: Intermezzo (Cavalliera Rusticana)
Elgar: Cello Concerto Op.85
Soloist: Adrianne Wininsky
Schumann: Symphony No 4 in D Minor Op.120
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
2012 Concert Programmes
Saturday 24th March
Mozart: Overture: ‘The Marriage of Figaro’
Crusell: Clarinet Concerto No.2 in F Minor
Soloist: Jennifer Dale
Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E Flat Major ‘Eroica’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 7th July
Roger Quilter: A Children’s Overture
Elgar: Salut d’Amour
Handel: La Paix
Beethoven: Romance in F Op.50
Soloist: Emma~Lee Vernon
Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F Major Op.68 ‘Pastoral’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 24th November
In Memory of Peter Thursfield (1932 – 2012)
Rossini: Overture: ‘The Theiving Magpie’
Bizet: Les Dragons d’Alcala
Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in B flat
Soloist: Kevin O’Sullivan
Schumann: Symphony No. 1 ‘Spring’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
2013 Concert Programmes
Saturday 23rd March
Mendelssohn: Overture: ‘Ruy Blas’
Handel: Arias: ‘Ombra mai fu’ and ‘Endless Pleasure’
Mozart: Motet: ‘Exsultate Jubilate’ K165
Soprano Soloist: Angela Rowley
Brahms: Symphony No.2 in D, Op.73
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 29th June
Beethoven: Overture: ‘Coriolan’
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622
Soloist: Ben Simnett
Rossini: Overture: ‘The Italian Girl in Algiers’
Schubert: Symphony No.3 in D major
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 30th November
Verdi: Overture: The Force of Destiny
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto
Soloist: Stephen Murphy
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G Major Op 88
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
2014 Concert Programmes
Saturday 22nd March
Brahms: Overture: Academic Festival
Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante in B flat
Soloists: Tom Sharpe, Emily Howard, Adrianne Wininsky, Sandra Downing
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 in E Minor
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 28th June
Mozart: Overture: ‘Idomineo’
Pachelbel: Canon in D
Schubert: Entr’acte No.3 from ‘Rosamunde’
Dvořák: Romance in F Minor Op.11
Soloist: Michael Vernon
Mendelssohn: Symphony No.4 in A ‘Italian’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 29th November
Mozart: Overture: ‘Don Giovanni’
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor
Soloist: David Riley
Beethoven: Symphony No.4 in B Flat
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
2015 Concert Programmes
Saturday 21st March
Concert in memory of John Davenport
Rossini: Overture ‘The Barber of Seville’
Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos 1, 4 & 5
Bruch: Kol Nidrei Op.47
Soloist: Alison Williams
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 B minor ‘Unfinished’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 27th June
Mendelssohn: Overture: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Butterworth: The Banks Of Green Willow
Vivaldi: Concerto C minor for Treble Recorder RV441
Vivaldi: Concerto C major for Treble Recorder RV443
Soloist (Both concertos): Lucy Carr
Schubert: Symphony No.1 in D major D82
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 28th November
at St. Michael’s Church, Bramhall
Rossini: The Thieving Magpie
Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor Op.125 ‘Choral’
Soloists: Angela Rowley (Soprano)
Marjorie Seddon (Alto)
John Elliott (Tenor)
David Borsada (Baritone)
Harmony ’96 Choir, Angela Rowley (Music Director)
James Pelham (Piano)
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
2016 Concert Programmes
Saturday 19th March
Balakirev: Overture on Three Russian themes
Telemann: Concerto for Viola in G Major
Soloist: Alison Sellars
Mozart: Overture ‘The Magic Flute’
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D minor ‘Reformation’
Conducted by Gloria Bakhshayesh
Saturday 2nd July
Sibelius: Finlandia
Elgar: Wand of Youth Suite No.1 Op.1
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.1 in G Minor Op.13 ‘Winter Dreams’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
November
Beethoven: Overture ‘Egmont’
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major
Soloist Emily Howard
Bizet: Symphony in C
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
2017 Concert Programmes
Saturday 1st April
Johann Strauss Jr.: Waltz ‘ Voices of Spring’
Elgar: Wand of Youth Suite No.2
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D
Soloist Michael Vernon
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 1st July
Schubert: Overture in D ‘In the Italian Style’
Mozart: Concerto for Flute in G major
Soloist Charlotte Staines
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 A major, Op. 92
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 25th November
Weber: Overture – Der Freischutz
Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1
Soloist Adrianne Wininsky
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 43
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
2018 Concerts
Saturday 24th March
Smetana: Vltava
Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer
Soloist: Michelle Robinson (Mezzo Soprano)
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 ‘New World’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 30th June
Mendelssohn: Overture Calm Sea & Prosperous Voyage
Carl Stamitz: Viola Concerto in D Major, Op. 1
Soloist Gabriel-Teodor Dirtu
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 ‘Italian’
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 24th November
Rossini: Overture The Barber of Seville
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K 364
Soloists Michael Vernon, Alison Sellars
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
2019 Concerts
Saturday 30th March
Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
Soloist Michael Vernon
Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 29th June
Schubert: Overture in the Italian Style in C major
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major
Soloist Michael Vernon
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Saturday 23th November
Dvořák: In Nature’s Realm
Sibelius: Karelia Suite
Brahms: Symphony No.3
Conducted by Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
2021 Concerts
Saturday 27th November
Schubert Entr’acte from Rosamunde
Handel arr. Harty Water Music (selected movements)
Faure Pavane
Haydn Symphony No. 104 in D
Conducted by Gloria Bakhshayesh
2022 Concerts
Saturday 26th March
Mozart Overture Cosi Fan Tutte
Mendelssohn Nocturne from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves
Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C
Conducted by Gloria Bakhshayesh
Saturday 25th June
Schubert Overture Rosamunde
Elgar Three Bavarian Dances
Dvořák Slavonic Dance Op 46 No 4
Nicolai Overture The Merry Wives of Windsor
Respighi/Rossini Selection from La Boutique Fantasque
Conducted by Gloria Bakhshayesh
Saturday 26th November
A Memorial Concert for Mehrdad Bakhshayesh
Weber Overture: Der Freischutz
Bruch Kol Nidrei (soloist Adrianne Wininsky)
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade – The Young Prince and the Young Princess
Dvořák Symphony No. 8
Conducted by Gloria Bakhshayesh
2023 Concerts
Saturday 25th March
Mozart Overture: Don Giovanni
Weber Clarinet Concerto No.1 (soloist Peter Lovatt)
Beethoven Symphony No.3 ‘Eroica’
Conducted by Gloria Bakhshayesh
Saturday 24th June
Programme
Gounod Judex (Mors et Vita)
Elgar Nimrod from the Enigma Variations
Bizet Carmen Suite No.1
Johann Strauss II Overture: Die Fledermaus
Schubert Symphony No.8 in B minor ‘The Unfinished’
Conducted by Gloria Bakhshayesh