2024
Sibelius Symphony No 5
Centenary Theatre, Kings Road
JAMES LARK Concerto for Orchestra (world première)
FINZI Clarinet Concerto
Soloist Marie Lloyd
SIBELIUS Symphony No 5
Beethoven Violin concerto
BEETHOVEN Violin concerto in D major
Soloist Dan-Iulian Druțac
BRAHMS Symphony No 1 in C minor
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D , OP 35
Soloist Amy Huang
ELGAR Enigma Variations
Stenhammar Piano Concerto No 2
SIBELIUS Spring Song
STENHAMMAR Piano Concerto No 2
Soloist Martin Sturfält
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No 2 in E minor Op 27
2023
Brahms Violin Concerto in D and Mahler’s 4th Symphony
BRAHMS – Violin Concerto in D
Soloist Nathaniel Anderson-Frank
MAHLER – Symphony No 4 in G
Soloist Clare McCaldin, Mezzo
Holst: the Planets and Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor
The Force of Destiny
VERDI: Overture, The Force of Destiny
STRAUSS: Four Last Songs
Solo: Eleanor Pennell-Briggs
BARTÓK: Concerto for Orchestra
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason: Chopin Piano Concerto No 2
DVOŘÁK 3 Slavonic Dances
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 2
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 4 in F
2022
Scotland the Brave
HAMISH McCUNN Land of Mountain and Flood
BRUCH Scottish Fantasy
MENDELSSOHN Scottish Symphony
St Peter’s church celebrates 800 years
Programme to be announced, in conjunction with St Peter's Church, Berkhamsted which will be celebrating its 8th centenary. Congratulations!
Rimsky-Korsakov, Sarasate & Massenet
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy
Soloist: Dan-Iulian Druțac, Violin
Massenet: Ballet Music from Le Cid
Liszt Piano Concerto No 2, Schubert & Dvořák
SCHUBERT Overture in D
LISZT Piano Concerto No 2 in A
Soloist Victor Maslov
DVOŘÁK Symphony No 7 in D minor
2021
Weber, Strauss & Elgar
WEBER Euryanthe
RICHARD STRAUSS Oboe Concerto
ELGAR Symphony No 1
Rachmaninoff 2nd Piano Concerto with Victor Maslov
PROKOFIEV Lieutenant Kijé
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6
2020
Gershwin, Barber and Bernstein
GERSHWIN A Cuban Overture
BARBER Violin Concerto Op 14
Soloist Nathaniel Anderson Frank
BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
MacCunn, Bruch, Mendelssohn and Maxwell Davis
HAMISH MacCUNN Land of the Mountain and the Flood
BRUCH Scottish Fantasy
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 56 ‘Scottish’
PETER MAXWELL DAVIS Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
2019
Borodin, Rachmaninov and Mussorgsky
BORODIN The Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)
RACHMANINOV Piano concerto No 3
Soloist Dinara Klinton
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition
Gershwin
Vaughan Williams, Dvorak and Beethoven
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
DVORAK Cello concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 (“Eroica”)
Dvorak, Mendelssohn and Brahms
DVOŘÁK ‘Carnival’ Overture, Op. 92, B. 169
MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 25
Soloist Thomas Kelly
BRAHMS Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 73
Hancock, Mozart and Mahler
STUART HANCOCK Variations on a Heroic Theme
MOZART Piano Concerto No 23 in A major
Soloist Anyssa Neumann
MAHLER Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor
2018
Copland, Grieg and Dvořák
Aaron COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man
Edvard GRIEG Piano Concerto in A minor
Soloist: Florian Mitrea
Antonín DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
An evening of music by Copland, Grieg and Dvořák
Celebration Concert
BEDŘICH SMETANA - Tone poem: Vltava
WILLIAM MATHIAS - Serenade for Small Orchestra
AARON COPLAND - Appalachian Spring
JEAN SIBELIUS - Symphony No 5 in E flat major
Join the Bridgewater Sinfonia in a special concert celebrating our 20th anniversary!
The Bridgewater Sinfonia is Berkhamsted’s own local orchestra. Formed of local professional musicians, the orchestra has been enriching the cultural life of Hertfordshire since 1997. This season, Bridgewater Sinfonia celebrates 20 years of live performance in Berkhamsted.
Bach, Elgar and Schubert
As part of St Peter's Oktoberfest, we celebrate with a programme of European music, including Elgar's orchestral arrangement of Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, Schubert's "Tragic" Symphony and Lekeu's Adagio for strings. The evening culminates in a performance of Elgar's Enigma Variations, which includes that Great British classic, Nimrod.
BACH / ELGAR Fantasia and Fugue in C minor (BWV 537)
LEKEU Adagio for strings
SCHUBERT Symphony No 4 (“Tragic”)
ELGAR Enigma Variations
Dvorak, Mendelssohn and Berlioz
Conductor Steven Joyce Myall
DVORAK The Noonday Witch
MENDELSSOHN Violin concerto
Soloist Griga Cuciuc
BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique
2017
Beethoven and Brahms
Ludwig VAN BEETHOVEN Overture: Egmont
Ludwig VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No 7
Johannes BRAHMS Piano Concerto No 2
soloist Dinara Klinton
Mendelssohn, Ravel and Tchaikovsky
Felix MENDELSSOHN Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Maurice RAVEL Ma Mère l'Oye
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovshy Symphony No 4
Mendelssohn, Elgar, Nielsen and Britten
Felix MENDELSSOHN Overture: Hebrides
Edward ELGAR Sea Pictures Soloist: Jeanette Ager
Carl NIELSEN Helios
Benjamin BRITTEN Sea Interludes (from Peter Grimes)
Grace WILLIAMS Sea Sketches
An evening of music by Mendelssohn, Elgar, Nielsen and Britten.
Borodin, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov
Alexander BORODIN In the Steppes of Central Asia
Peter Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto in D Major
Soloist: Nazrin Rashidova
Sergei RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2 in E minor
An evening of music by Borodin, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov
2016
Parry, Grieg, Rachmaninov & Rimsky-Korsakov
PARRY Elegy for Brahms
GRIEG Peer Gynt Suite No 1
RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini
Soloist Yuki Kondo
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Capriccio Espagnol, Op 34
An evening of Great British, Norwegian and Russian classics.
Enjoy an action-packed programme ablaze with emotional colour, featuring works such as Rimsky-Korsakov’s lively Capriccio Espagnol and Grieg’s enchanting Peer Gynt Suite No.1. We are also greatly honoured to welcome the internationally renowned pianist Yuki Kondo for Rachmaninoff’s dazzling Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
Rossini, Strauss & Sibelius
ROSSINI Overture: William Tell
R. STRAUSS Horn Concerto No 2
Soloist: Andrew Littlemore
SIBELIUS Symphony No 3 in C major
Rossini’s much-loved overture to his opera William Tell, Sibelius’s triumphal Symphony No. 3 and the lyrical Second Horn Concerto by Richard Strauss promise an uplifting evening of symphonic splendour in Berkhamsted.
Bach, Copland and Rimsky-Korsakov
J S BACH Brandenburg Concerto No 6
Aaron COPLAND Clarinet Concerto
soloist Marie Lloyd
Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade
Mozart and Schumann
W A MOZART Overture: Le Nozze di Figaro
Robert SCHUMANN Konzertstück
W A MOZART Requiem
with Chiltern Chamber Choir & soloists
2015
Bridgewater Sinfonia goes Russian
KHATCHATURIAN Masquerade
TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake Suite
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
An evening of Great Russians, passion and colour, certainly not to be missed!
For this concert we were honoured to welcome as our celebrity guest conductor Mikhail Shcherbakov of the Samara Philharmonic Orchestra, Russia.
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Mikhail Shcherbakov and Adrian Davis[/caption]
Bach, Mendelssohn & Dvořák
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No 1
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
DVORAK Symphony No 7 in D minor, Op. 70
For a change, there is no choral component of this last concert of the season. It is, instead, a vibrant and joyful celebration of some of the all-time greats of classical music.
Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams & Mendelssohn
STRAVINSKY Pulcinella Suite
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending
Soloist Francesca Barritt
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No.4 “Italian”
An autumn concert of music by Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams & Mendelssohn
Bizet, Brahms & Cherubini
BIZET - L’Arlésienne Suite No 1
BRAHMS - Schicksalslied OP 54
with the Chiltern Chamber Choir
CHERUBINI - Requiem with the Chiltern Chamber Choir
A programme of music by Bizet, Brahms & Cherubini
2014
Weber, Brahms and Schumann
WEBER Overture: Der Freischütz
Haydn’s Creation
Haydn's Creation
with the Chiltern Chamber Choir
Dukas, Mozart and Saint-Saëns
DUKAS - The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
MOZART - Piano concerto in D Minor No 20, K466
David Gordon, piano
SAINT SAËNS - Symphony No 3 in C minor, “Organ Symphony”
Jonathan Lee, organ
Ravel, Elgar & Vaughan Williams
RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin
ELGAR Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 with Matthew Sharp, cello
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Dona Nobis Pacem With Chiltern Chamber Choir
This is Bridgewater Sinfonia’s contribution to the commemoration of the start of World War I, and a tribute to all those who died in our defence.
2013
A British Celebration
ELGAR Overture: Froissart
BRITTEN Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings Op 31
JEREMY BUDD tenor
NICHOLAS KORTH horn
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No.5
A celebrtion of the work of some Great British composers of the Twentieth Century: Sir Edward Elgar, Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Humperdinck, Schubert, Hopkins and Britten
HUMPERDINCK - Hansel & Gretel Overture SCHUBERT - Symphony No 5 HOPKINS - Festival Overture BRITTEN - Young Persons’ Guide to the Orchestra
A concert of music by Humperdinck, Schubert, Hopkins and Britten