Saturday 13 October 2018 7.30 p.m. St Thomas' Church St Thomas Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4DF Mozart was the composer whom Tchaikovsky revered. We start with the overture to Mozart's opera Cosi fan Tutte before playing his joyful Symphony No 29. For the second half we turn to Tchaikovsky and his final work, his sixth symphony - a work of extreme passions and contrasts. If you like Tchaikovsky, you will be pleased to know we have more Tchaikovsky in February when we perform his virtuoso and joyfully lyrical violin concerto. Mozart Overture to Cosi fan Tutte K588 Mozart Symphony No 29 K201 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 (the Pathetique) Conductor Bradley Winand Leader Charles Clark Saturday 9 February 2019 7.30 p.m. St Thomas' Church St Thomas Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4DF Conductor Florian Cooper Violin Krassimira Jeliazkova-Jones Leader Charles Clark We are delighted to welcome Florian Cooper to our family of conductors and to welcome Krassimira Jeliazkova-Jones as violin soloist in an all-Russian concert. After Mussorgsky's gentle atmospheric depiction of sunrise we will be joined by Krassimira Jeliazkova-Jones as soloist in Tchaikovsky's passionately lyrical and joyful virtuoso violin concerto before ending with Shostakovich's intensely moving and life-affirming fifth symphony. To know more about the works, please read our programme notes. Mussorgsky Prelude to Khovanschina (Dawn over the Moskva River) Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Shostakovich Symphony No 5 Saturday 18 May 2019 7.30 p.m. St Thomas' Church St Thomas Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4DF Concert of Film Music Conductor David Pickthall Leader Charles Clark David Pickthall returns to introduce and conduct another concert of favourite film music. Mission Impossible (Lalo Schifrin) Henry V Suite (William Walton) Schindler's List (John Williams) Gabriel's Oboe (Ennio Morricone) Jurassic Park (John Williams) North by Northwest (Bernard Herrmann) Out of Africa (John Barry) Star Trek Suite (Alexander Courage, Dennis McCarthy & Jerry Goldsmith) Cinema Paradiso (Ennio Morricone) ET (John Williams) Pirates of the Caribbean (Hans Zimmer/Klaus Badelt) Journey into Darkness (Louis Loze-Carey) African Waltz (Johnny Dankworth) Thunderbirds (Barry Gray) Saturday 8 June 2019 3.00pm Afternoon Classics St Thomas's Church St Thomas Road Brentwood Essex CM14 4DF Conductor Brian Lynn Leader Charles Clark In an innovation for this season, we are introducing a new format of a concert of a Saturday afternoon concert of about an hour showcasing some of the many talented musicians in the Brentwood Philharmonic Orchestra. The programme will be: Vivaldi - Spring from the Four Seasons Mozart - Andantino from Concerto for Flute & Harp Copland - Quiet City Vivaldi - Largo from Mandolin Concerto in C Beethoven - Romance in F Op 50 Mozart - Presto from A Musical Joke Tickets £8, 18 and under £1. Online booking (with no booking fee) is now open at wegottickets. Online booking closes at 6pm on the day before the concert. Tickets are also available (without booking fee) for payment in cash from The Shenfield Wine Company, 86 Hutton Road, Shenfield CM15 8NB. There will be free car parking at the Brentwood Ursuline Convent High School just down the road from the church in Queens' Road. FUTURE CONCERT DATES Saturday 12 October 2019 at St Thomas's Church Conductor Bradley Winand Violin Krassimira Jeliazkova-Jones Cello Veronica Henderson Beethoven Coriolan Overture Brahms Concerto for Violin & Cello Beethoven Symphony No 3 (Eroica) Saturday 8 February 2020 with Florian Cooper. Programme to include Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Saturday 16 May 2020 (programme TBC) |