ASON 1996-97
Special Events
Principal Conductor: En Shao
Sunday 14 July 1996
East Meets West
Chen Yi
Duo Ye
The French Tradition
Shalford Park, Guildford
Berlioz
8.00pm
Overture Benvenuto Cellini
Saint-Saéns Piano Concerto No. 2
Violin Concerto (Butterfly Lovers)
Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
2
Debussy
and Choir
He Zhan Hao and
Chen Gang
Classic Riverside ‘Pops’
Sunday 23 March 1997 - 3.00pm
Sunday 24 November 1996 - 3.00pm
Elgar
Variations on an original theme ‘Enigma’
3
Ravel
Violin
Lu Siqing
Conductor
En Shao
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Piano
Conductor
This programme will be introduced by the conductor
Prélude a I’aprés-midi d’un faune
conducted by
Jeremy Backhouse
Second Suite: Daphnis & Chloé
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Jorge Luis Prats
Emil Tabakov
This concert forms part of the Guildford International Music Festival
(Concessions: £10 for subscribers & Philharmonic Society
members, children under 16, retired over the age of 60)
Saturday 14 December 1996 - 7.30pm
The Crossley Clitheroe Concert
Beethoven
Overture Egmont
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Beethoven
Violin Concerto
8
Brahms
Symphony No. 2
Violin
Mirijam Contzen
Conductor
James Lockhart
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Sunday 9 February 1997 — 3.00pm
from Tourist Information Centre (Tunsgate) - (01483) 444334
Saturday 5 April 1997 - 7.30pm
Civic Hall Box Office - (01483) 444555
The Spanish Connection
Chabrier
Gates open at 6.30pm
Espana
Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez
De Falla
Dances from The Three-cornered Hat
Debussy
Ibéria
Guitar
Nicola Hall
Conductor
En Shao
Friday 31 January 1997 - 7.30pm
Civic Concert: An Evening of Rhapsodies
Nicola Hall
Liszt
Young Prizewinners’ Concert
Schubert
Symphony No. 8 in B minor (Unfinished)
Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor
Brahms
Violin Concerto in D major
Piano
Katya Apekisheva (Winner of LPO/Pioneer
Concerto Competition 1996)
Sponsored by The Sir Charles Groves Endowment Fund
Violin
Conductor
Paganini
Saturday 19 April 1997 - 7.30pm
Music from the Golden Age of Film
Programme Celebrating Korngold’s Centenary
Waxman
Prince Valiant - tone poem
Gershwin
.| Enesco
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Piano
~ Conductor
Rhapsody in Blue
Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
Gabriela Imreh
Daniel Spalding
Cathy’s theme from Wuthering Heights
Concert sponsored by 44%” BOC GASES
International Violin Competition in Poland 1995)
Korngold
Juarez Overture
Tickets: £12.50, £11.50 & £10.50
Sponsored by The English Speaking Union
Korngold
Violin Concerto
(concessions)
John Forster
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Movements from Henry V Suite
- Waxman
Carmen Fantasy
John Williams =Music from the films
Saturday 8 March 1997 - 7.30pm
Conductor
Guildford Cathedral
Julian Bigg
This programme will be introduced by the conductor
The Russian Tradition
6.15pm Pre-Concert talk by Brendan Carroll,
Rachmaninov
The Bells
Rimsky-Korsakov
Le Cog d’Or (excerpts)
Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
Philharmonic Choir
En Shao
This concert forms part of the Guildford International Music
Festival and is sponsored by Borax Europe Limited
BORAX®
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Alfred Newman
Corina Belcea (Winner of Wieniawski
Sponsored by Morison Stoneham
Conductor
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of
President of the Korngold Society
Saturday 3 May 1997 — 7.30pm Guildford Cathedral
Beethoven
Choral Fantasia
Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 (Choral)
Philharmonic Choir
Conductor
En Shao
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GUILDFORD
Introduction to the Season
PHILHARMONIC
Including a Reception with Wine
Wednesday 18 September 1996 — 7.30pm
The Orchestra was founded by
Burchatts Farm Barn e Stoke Park
Guildford Borough Council in
1944 with Crossley Clitheroe
Terry Barfoot will
as its first Musical Director.
present illustrated
Tickets: £6.50
(£5.00 for Society
Vernon Handley, Sir Charles
highlights of the forth-
Groves and Sir Alexander Gibson
coming season with
available from:
Jeremy Backhouse,
Guildford Philharmonic Office
subsequently held the position
Chorus Director, in
of Principal Conductor before
the attractive setting
En Shao. The Orchestra
Principal Conductor
of Burchatts Farm
presents a diverse annual season
of the Guildford
at Guildford Civic Hall and
Guildford Cathedral, catering for
all tastes. A lively education pro-
Barn.
Millmead House
Millmead, Guildford
GU2 5BB
Telephone: 01483 444666
Philbarmonic has been
very exciting and there
Choir
are many interesting
Chorus Director:
gramme has been established
projects planned for
which involves hundreds of
the coming season.
Rehearsals:
schoolchildren each year. Young
I look forward to my
Mondays 7.30 - 9.30pm at
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careers as well as internationally
with the Orchestra and
famous artists appear in the
to developing further its
Guildford Philharmonic’s sea-
reputation of excellence
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members & subscribers)
Jeremy Backhouse
Sunday 29 September 1996 - 3.00pm
Tchaikovsky
Fantasie Overture: Romeo and Juliet
Nielsen
Flute Concerto
Mahler
Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
Stravinksy
Suite: The Firebird
(Visconti’s Death in Venice music)
Flute
Gareth Davies
Conductor
En Shao
Concert sponsored by Hart Brown Solicitors
Saturday 12 October 1996 - 7.30pm
A Celebration of English Music
Elgar
Overture Froissart
Walton
Viola Concerto
Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 6
Viola
Roger Benedict
Vernon Handley
Conductor
Guildford
Philbarmonic
Choir
Sunday 27 October 1996 - 3.00pm
The Classical Experience
Mozart
Overture The Magic Flute
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4
Woodbridge Road, Guildford
Schumann Symphony No. 4
Society
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Saturday 9 November 1996 - 7.30pm
Visions of Paradise
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Sponsors
Choral Scenes from Les Dialogues
des Carmelites
Stabat Mater
Herbert Howells
Hymnus Paradisi
Soprano
Katy Tansy
Alto
Teresa Shaw
The Orchestra acknowledges the generous support of its
Tenor
Andrew Murgatroyd
Sponsors:
Bass
Colin Campbell
Philharmonic Choir
Hart Brown, Solicitors
Borax Europe Limited
Conductor
BOC GASES
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6.15pm Pre-concert talk by Sir David Willcocks, President
Sir Charles Groves Endowment Fund Morison Stoneham
Jeremy Backhouse
of the Herbert Howells Society
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Saturday 9 November 1996 - 6.15pm
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Saturday 19 April 1997 - 6.15pm
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Sunday 15 December 1996 - 3.00pm
Carols at the Civic Hall
in association with the Rotary Club of Guildford
Choristers of Guildford Cathedral
Guildford Philharmonic Choir
Celebrity Presenter
Conductor Jeremy Backhouse
Tickets: £7.50 & £5.50 (concessions £5.50 & £3.50)
from Civic Hall Box Office —- 01483 444555
Thursday 6 March 1997
Classical Road Show
at the Civic Hall
Terra Australis by Richard Brown
World premiére
An educational project for children and orchestra; an
exploration of Aboriginal folklore.
Two performances — 11.15am and 1.45pm.
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