2021-22 Season
Saturday 12th March 2022 at 7.30 pm
All Saints’ Church, Leamington Spa, CV31 3AA
The Tragic Overture, Op. 81 – Brahms
Bassoon Overture – Woolfenden
Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70 – Dvořák
Rebecca Eldridge – bassoon
Roger Coull – conductor
Brahms Tragic Overture has an emotional resonance which is deeply moving. This is followed by Guy Woolfenden’s Bassoon Concerto, which was premiered by the WSO in 1999.
Composed on a commission from the London Philharmonic Society, Dvořák’s 7th is the most dramatic and austere of his nine symphonies.
Saturday 11th June 2022 at 7.30 pm
St. Mary’s Church, Warwick, CV34 4RA
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis – Vaughan Williams
Dancing Fish – Cecilia McDowall
Scaramouche – Milhaud
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 97 – Schumann
Gillian Blair saxophone
Roger Coull conductor
Two composers working almost 400 years apart bring us the much loved Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, written for strings. Inspired by a Russian folk story, Dancing Fish is written for solo saxophone and strings. It is a three-movement work based on incidental music written for a Molière play. Schumann’s third and final symphony is sometimes known as The Rhenish; it was written after the composer had made a trip to the Rhineland with his wife.